Drew McOnie

Goucher, Gale and Myer’s Hairspray does exactly what it says on the bottle: Nottingham’s Theatre Royal burst with colour and glitter in this feel-good, fabulous musical. Yet the rawness of the racial issues of 1960s America remains intact with the uncomfortable realities woven comfortably into the uplifting and energetic...

2015 was an exciting and controversial year in the world of dance. There were retirements, notably of the Royal Ballet principal Carlos Acosta and global dance star Sylvie Guillem; there were highly-anticipated debuts, such as that of British rising star Francesca Hayward in The Royal Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet;...