Photo by Daniela Denyer Malo The Fantasia Orchestra – from Mahler to Manhattan, has arrived in London this week in full force and will be touring the UK for the coming months. Directed by Tom Fetherstonhaugh, the Fantasia Orchestra takes the audience on an out-of-this-world journey that transports you from the city centre to every magical and fantastical setting you can imagine. For this special show, Niamh O’Sullivan, the Irish mezzo-soprano, joins the orchestra and manages

Photo by Daniela Denyer Malo It is a rare thing, to find such talented actors in a production with such a terrible script as this one. Dark of the Moon is the musical currently playing in the Charing Cross Theatre and if the AI-looking poster isn’t enough to deter you from attending, the first song will make it all worth it… right up to the point where the ‘witches’ start singing. Dark of the Moon is a supernatural musical set in the Appalachian Mountains, where the human wor

You can’t make it too perfect or mechanical, or else it’ll be too obvious that it’s fake. The art of tricking someone into thinking your replica food is real is so difficult, but when someone gives you that reaction, it’s incredibly rewarding.

Photo by Julia Barrantes via Pexels (licensed under the Pexels Licence) Erika Kohut, the piano teacher, stands in her ultralong skirt and perfectly modest blouse, clutching the chest from which blood now oozes – a self-inflicted stab wound. She does not cry. She exits the concert hall in which she is set to perform and disappears into the streets of Vienna. The credits roll. Congratulations, viewer, you may now mark ‘The Piano Teacher’ (Michael Haneke, 2001) as watched on Let

Photo by Dhruv Sabherwal Born and raised in Hounslow, Kizzi began to DJ at the young age of 15 – an experience that undoubtedly shaped her sound. Her speciality as a DJ lies in blending what she grew up with: the Dhol she picked up at a young age, the Bhangra she danced to with her mother, the Afrobeats she heard at school. Her distinct and vibrant sound moves from South Asian beats to old-school hip-hop classics, with SXSW asserting that she is “carving her own path in the