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Enda Walsh’s abrasive, poetic two-hander, Disco Pigs is a bullet-train ride of extremes. Two 17-year-olds, Pig (Ben Gettins) and Runt (Amy McAllister) are best friends born just seconds apart in the same hospital. Hurling their angst at each other (and the audience) for just under an hour, the pair navigate the throws of teendom, clinging to their friendship for dear life.

My friend and I both said the same thing at the same time as we left the Boilershop after seeing South African Cellist, Abel Selaocoe. This was 'that might have been the best gig I’ve ever been to'. That might not be a very journalism-y thing to say (well, neither is “journalism-y”,) but it sums things up succinctly.

I like my orchestral music organised around Northern talent. An evening of two halves, this BBC Proms event saw Nottingham (which is geographically more North than South, so let’s forget for a moment that it’s in the midlands) was repped by four-piece band Divorce. Then, Rotherham-born Self-Esteem - or Rebecca Lucy Taylor, a seedling national treasure – performed an hour-long set “with some surprises”, primarily performing her own work with new arrangements by Colin Elliot.

Inspired by a true story, DREAM SCHOOL is a thriller about a group of students who accidentally find themselves in a cult. BroadwayWorld chats to the play's writer Francis Grin and producers Jennie Eggleton and Charlotte Everest about the real-life roots of the show.

Soapbox Racer is about a teenager called Kay (played by Harrison Rowley-Lynn) who gets dumped in Very Bad and Dramatic Circumstances but graciously chooses to make the best of it. Writer Ben Schwarz and emerging North East director extraordinaire Rosie Bowden sit with BroadwayWorld to give us a peep under the play’s hood.

Putting pen to paper for curious theatre minds, director Nancy Meckler has reflected on her extensive experience in Notes From the Rehearsal Room: A Director’s Process, published by Methuen Drama in February this year. BroadwayWorld grabbed an hour with Nancy to get a sense of what it was like to reflect on her career.

BroadwayWorld go on a field trip to watch dance artist Esther Huss, and her collaborators, practice their community work in a project called STAIRWALL: THE THINGS WE FIND.

Rhian Jade and Papi Jeovani of SoreSlap Theatre talk us through their new play, MORE BLACKS, MORE DOGS, MORE IRISH at Alphabetti Theatre until 3 December.

Jemma Kennedy on her new guide to creative process, THE PLAYWRIGHT'S JOURNEY

Exquisitely written, extraordinarily perceptive, and delightful to read, Jemma Kennedy's The Playwright's Journey is a joyful meander through creative process.

The final part in a three-part series of Q&A's, artists of this year's YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK season at Theatre Peckham take us a behind-the-scenes of the shows on the bill.

Artists chat about this year's YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK season at Theatre Peckham, a celebration of people from the African Diaspora. Part two!

For the fourth year, Theatre Peckham presents its Young, Gifted & Black season, an annual event which celebrates people from the African diaspora over five weeks.

Sugar Baby made its debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017. A compelling one-man play by Alan Harris, this new production directed by Natasha Haws is a wonderfully wild ride.

What did our critic think of MY LOVER WAS A SALMON IN THE CLIMATE APOCALYPSE at Pleasance Courtyard?

What did our critic think of SHE WOLF at Assemly Roxy?

What did our critic think of JESUS, JANE, MOTHER & ME at Pleasance Dome?

What did our critic think of LUCID at ZOO Playground?

What did our critic think of KATHY AND STELLA SOLVE A MURDER at Summerhall?

What did our critic think of FLAT AND THE CURVES at The Stand?