Arts

'As a multicultural director, it is important that we understand the responsibility of stepping into another culture and world. I feel blessed and honored to bring elements of the Taíno history to life in our musical.'

This is lively full-strength Shakespeare, a dizzying story of changing fortunes and changing sides, loyalty and betrayal, weakness and strength, war and more war, with only small and hesitant hopes for peace – and all made easy to follow and admire.

The triumph of love in unifying nations and dispelling racism, discrimination, and hatred is the key theme of this incredible musical. How worthy, how wise, how current for our times.

Walls that divide are walls that should be torn down.

If you are looking for a family outing that's a fit for every age group, consider 'Kooza' – because sometimes we all need to go back to basics.

Ho's script shows that at the end of it all, grown men will still talk about sex and ladies as they did when they were horny teens.

When a lowly civil servant outwits corrupt officials, it is a moment to joy over.

The debut stage production of a 1985 BBC teleplay questions whether the two warring sides of human nature can ever be reconciled. The answer it suggests doesn't bode well. Yet as a polished, powerful, challenging piece of art itself, it offers a silver lining of hope too.

Tuneful songs and strong performances enliven this tragic love story set in the time of the conquistadors. The show flutters nervously along two parallel tracks, one reflecting the real butchery and horror of the conquest, the other of semi-cartoonish family fare.

Whether it's Lord Byron's whereabouts on a certain few days or the entropic fate of the universe, the search for knowledge drives us all.