70 stories by "Emily Garside"
The show tells the story of three best friends, Effie White, Deena Jones and Lorrell Robinson, on their quest to become music stars in 1960s America and what happens to them on their way to …
I want to start by saying how happy I am to be back reviewing musical theatre. How happy I am the big tours are back and how overjoyed I was to be back in my home turf of the Wales Millenniu…
The Boy with Two Hearts is an adaption of the book by Hamed and Hessam Amiri adapted for the stage by Phil Porter. The book which was a Radio 4 book of the week, combines the account of the …
'You are here, at the start of a moment'. Those words in Come From Away never felt more true. Four hundred and 95 days after last being in a West End theatre, 495 days after last seeing a mu…
 I resolutely wasn't doing a round up for 2020. I mean what on earth were we going to round up? This year has, with no exaggeration, broken our hearts in theatre. There's no other way …
I accidentally wrote a viral tweet. It came out of a moment of possibly ill-thought frustration. Out of feeling brushed aside, dismissed one too many times. But wow did that tweet resonate.
Rent recently marked its 24th anniversary since its Broadway opening. Every year I try to write something. This year, in particular, it seemed important to.
My play Paper Cuts went live on Bloom Theatre's YouTube channel last month. This play was a long time coming… hopefully, this isn't the end, and it's got a way to run.
I've struggled to write about theatre at this time. To be honest, I've struggled to write anything about anything. It took me weeks to get my head remotely functioning.
For every introverted socially awkward nerd Romantics Anonymous feels like seeing your fears and secrets on stage without being mocked.
And so here it is... my top 10 musicals of the decade. It turned out to be a slightly emotional journey. But it turns out musicals meant a lot in that time and I'll fight anyone who says mus…
This isn't a 'best of' list it's my best-of list, these are the plays that shaped me this decade and will stay with me well into the next.
From the mid-2000s there has been an upsurge in reviving 'Aids plays' " from the 2008 Broadway revival of The Normal Heart
By Emily Garside. Emily Garside discusses Y Brain/Kargalar, in which the playwright, Turkish refugee Meltem Arikan, who settled in Wales, explores her conflicting identities.Â
For anyone who has been under a rock for the last couple of years in London theatre, this stripping back to the essence of a classic is one of Marianne Elliott's (many) talents. And here wit…
I thank all the theatre I've endured that has perhaps made me a better person, but in future I'll be asking first just how much joy it's going to bring me, and if I'm perhaps better off else…
On the top layer, Waitress is sweet and fun with beautiful ingredients in the form of a stellar cast. But dig a little deeper and we find there are a lot more layers to the pie.
Fascinating All About Eve is, engaging perhaps not always. But anyone hoping for the same level of emotional payoff that Anderson's other stage roles have demonstrated will likely end up fru…
I've spent this last couple of weeks thinking about Rent a lot. It's not unusual to think about Rent. For me it's always kind of there, in the background.
I wanted to record all the productions in 2018 that had had a profound impact on me, so here is the collection that will be with me for a long time.
Emily Garside rounds up her Top 10 shows of 2018.
The Other Room has established itself as the Channel 4 of Christmas in Cardiff, with its alternative Christmas show. And this year, up and coming company Big Loop is resident with Cheer.
Rachel O'Riordan's last production as director at the Sherman Theatre is Mike Kenny's warm-hearted new adaption of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
Directed with intelligence, and a clear passion from Matthew Holmquist and with writing that balances a particular brand of Cardiff humour with universal themes and important questions, Card…
Tuck takes us on a journey of sequins and glitter that eventually blur through tears. It's fierce and fabulous and goes out fighting.
