If I said this was Sondheim for kids you’d probably run a mile. But stop! Be not afeared! This is a fine, almost sung-through version of the grisly memoir which entranced the audience of four-year-olds and up, not to mention...
Read MoreNorthern Soul has teamed up with the Royal Northern College of Music to offer five readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to RNCM Opera’s latest production, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. Based on the magical and somewhat...
Read MoreWhat do you get if you take Craig Charles, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Hansel and Gretel and shake them all up together? You get an invitation into the world of the Scary Fairy. On a cold winter’s night in mid-December we...
Read MoreFairytales are everywhere at the moment – not that they’ve been away – but we’ve become rather obsessed of late. From Neil Gaiman’s retelling of Sleeping Beauty (The Sleeper And The Spindle) to Frank Cottrell Boyce’s recent Red...
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