House of Suarez: Vogue Deco and Other Stories
Our live arts critic C James Fagan continues his Homotopia experience with a confusing evening of strutting, fashion and Voguing… So it’s been a week since I attended, or wrote about, a performance...
Jeremy Deller: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Emma Palmer finds that a potent mix of Marxism, wrestling, revolution and acid house combine to make Manchester Art Gallery’s latest exhibition… Exploring Britain’s rapid growth under the Industrial Revolution, Jeremy Deller’s new exhibition, All...
Exclusive: New Everyman Opening Date and Spring/Summer Season Announced
We’ve been waiting for ages, it seems, but the Everyman theatre is soon to open its doors to the public. The building, which has been completely re-designed by architects Haworth Tompkins, is set...
This Way Out: The New Boy George
Popstar, rockstar, photographer, chameleon: Pete Goodbody puts aside his preconceptions and introduces himself to the new Boy George… It’s Bonfire Night and Boy George is on Later with Jools. He’s sporting a beard that’s not...
ABC in Sound: The Late, Great Bob Cobbing
Rose Parish discovers a life rich with ideas, poetry and performance in this offbeat exhibition… ABC in Sound is an exhibition about the late Bob Cobbing (1920-2002) curated by Biennial project curator Rosie...
Art Turning Left — Reviewed
Revolutionary thought and ideas inform a new exhibition and Tate Liverpool’s future, finds Laura Robertson… How ‘left’ is Tate? Alongside the corporate sponsors and blockbuster artists, lies an organisation responsible for rejuvenating an...
The Grand Gesture – Reviewed
Jennie Tsai arrived at the Liverpool Playhouse in search of a grand gesture; she found that and more in a new production of a banned Russian play… Lively, light and literary – The...
Dance! Dance! Dance!
C James Fagan finds himself surprised and seduced by Homotopia’s Dance Triple Bill… There’s a heightened sense of excitement as I enter the Unity’s theatre space for Homotopia’s Dance Triple Bill. Once the...
Of Saints and Go-Go Boys — Reviewed
C James Fagan steels himself for an ‘erotically charged’ evening of ‘the abject, the shocking, and the profane’… Somewhere tonight three people are setting out on a destructive path. Caught in a hermetic world,...