Arts articles
Now in its 3rd year, Talawa Theatre Company’s acclaimed new-writing festival, TALAWA FIRSTS will return between 11 and 27 June. Talawa Studios – the company’s dedicated performance space in Old Street – will become a hub of activity for three weeks, showcasing and developing the best in Black British writing. New plays have been curated […]
Kingston Paradise wins ‘African Oscar’ The Jamaican film Kingston Paradise has won the Award for Best Diaspora Feature Film at the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA). The AMAA, which were presented last Saturday night at a gala in the Nigerian city of Bayelsa, are seen as the African equivalent of the Oscars. Kingston Paradise, a […]
UK Film Hard Time Bus Gets New York Debut Award-winning UK feature film, Hard Time Bus is an Official Selection for this year’s prestigious American Black Film Festival (ABFF) and will be screened at the SVA theatre in New York on 21st June 2014. The festival is set to open with the star-studded premiere of […]
Caribbean writer and Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott adapts his epic poem Omeros for performance in the unique Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. The poem spans both time and continents, following the journey of a present-day Odysseus and a beautiful house servant Helen, who incites her own Trojan War. St Lucian born Joseph Marcell will star in […]
Richard Blackwood and Friends ALL STARS OF COMEDY UK TOUR Simply The Hottest Ticket In Town Fresh from our Sell-out REAL McCOY UK Tour We’re back with another all-star line-up See Richard Blackwood and Friends SLIM, RUDI LICKWOOD, JOHN SIMMIT & **DANE BAPTISTE Are You Ready Huddersfield, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham & Sheffield! Get Your Tickets […]