St. Patrick’s Irish Club. A deceptively large building overlooking the river in everybody’s favourite student town. A place to watch rugby, learn Irish dancing, and catch any number of touring tribute bands. And, since 2004, home to Leamington’s Café Scientifique. Café Scientifique did not begin in Leamington Spa, of course....
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Romantic and hilarious as it may be, a musical comedy from the 1930s may at first seem an odd choice for modern student theatre. Full of problematic faves, enormous tap numbers, and ending with more wedding-reshuffling than the finale of Mamma Mia, taking on Anything Goes was a gargantuan task....
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This is the sitzprobe for Music Theatre Warwick’s production of Tick Tick… Boom! – the first rehearsal with the cast and the band together. The location is the Drama Studio in the Avon Room on Westwood campus. It’s a black box with a low ceiling, as wide as it is...
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Despite not having seen either of their seasons of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, YouTube decided I’d like Trixie Mattel and Katya reacting to Netflix shows. YouTube has never been more right. It started as Shorts (that’s how they get you) and then the full videos of them binging entire seasons...
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Musical theatre icon Robert Madge toured through Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre last week with their one-person autobiographical West End hit My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?). The show focuses on Madge’s childhood, much of which was spent delivering elaborate (and camp) theatrical performances in their family living room....
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Three Spires Guildhall (TSG), a theatre society based in Coventry, returned to the Warwick Arts Centre last week for their annual musical. This year’s choice, the classic riches-to-more-academic-riches tale: Legally Blonde. The energy in the auditorium for their final performance on the evening of Saturday 15 June was palpable. Small...
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Rooster Teeth has closed down. Announced in an open letter by its general manager in March, operations officially ceased on May 15th 2024. The production company, most famous for its Halo machinima web-series Red vs Blue, had been operating since April 2003. In that time, it had grown to include...
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A study has shown that 43% of Gen Z and millennials in the US don’t consider themselves ‘readers’. However, these people apparently read quite a lot. The article suggests that these people don’t consider the ‘reading’ they do to count, raising questions over the definition of the term. Wikipedia defines...
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Yogscast have a long history with podcasts, dating back to 2009 with The Yogpod. Now, they have an entire podcast network – Pickaxe. As one might expect, a lot of the podcasts on this network revolve around games. The Chance & Counters Podcast is no exception, being hosted by founding...
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Many people know of John Green as a prolific author, YouTuber, and podcaster. His biggest podcast, Dear Hank and John, is a respectable advice-giving show hosted by John and his brother, who has an equally impressive resume. The Anthropocene Reviewed is more of a solo venture. The Anthropocene is the semi-official...
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The Bad Gays podcast is hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, who discuss ‘evil and complicated queers in history’. Each episode is about a particular individual and seems to be structured as a pre-prepared biography followed by more general discussion. Podcasts like this and Do Go On, and really...
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I love musical theatre. I especially love good musical theatre. A good musical is like a good album: it tells a story with a couple of bangers, a few filler tracks that you can appreciate for what they are, and one or two real stinkers. This article is about those...
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As a child, I took New Year’s resolutions very seriously. They were a chance to try and be better with a commitment long enough to preserve your new proclivities as permanent parts of your personality. My family still regale people with my 2012 success story, when I dropped my fussy...
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