From his massive 2012 tour ‘What’s Happening White People?’ join Paul Chowdhry live and uncensored from his huge sell-out show at the legendary Hammersmith Apollo. Paul dissects all the issues of growing up and living in multicultural Britain with his own brand of edgy and highly charged comedy. From reusing margarine tubs to passive racism to breaking down racial barriers, there are no holds barred and nothing is left unturned as Paul tackles...

Award-winning and Bafta-nominated comedian Romesh Ranganathan performs in front of a sell-out audience at London’s Hammersmith Apollo. The 'Asian Provocateur' takes shots at everyone, from his kids to a stranger in a coffee shop, as he explores the rationality of his world view and explains why everybody else is wrong.

Filmed at Sydney's Carriageworks, the Australian Chamber Orchestra take us on an exquisitely beautiful and moving journey. Vox amoris, written for Richard Tognetti in 2009 by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, the violin sings a song to the glory of love through emotional highs and lows. Such balancing of melancholy and light also underpins the moral complexity in Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, but the resolution finds love as a redeemer. Even Bach’s...

Spike Lee's adaptation of the Broadway show "Passing Strange" presents the portrait of a musician as a young man. In 1970s Los Angeles, a talented but rebellious middle-class African-American discovers punk rock. Through the intervention of a sincere choir director, the young man travels to Europe, where his talents blossom, but at the expense of those who care for him. The film is based on the life of musician Stew, who appears as narrator and commentator...

Emme, Sophie, Ethan, and Carter are seniors at a performing arts high school in New York City, preparing for the senior recital and feeling the pressure to perform well and take the next step in their careers and their lives--whether they want to or not.

Burlesque was one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment in the first half of the 20th century. Gaudy, bawdy and spectacular, the shows entertained thousands of customers every night of the week. And yet the legacy of burlesque is often vilified, misunderstood, and left out of history. By telling intimate, surprising stories from its golden age through the women (and men!) who lived it, BEHIND THE BURLY Q reveals the true story of burlesque,...

So we meet the characters one at a time. Bogart is grumbling about everything being so late. Robby has been in a state of sustained carnival wonder since the early 80s. Paul is jammin’ in Trinidad with Mac Farlane for the first time, lookin’ forward to the party. Jhawhan is a folk dancer with dreams of being the king of carnival. Brian is ambitious and determined and Jenette is a first-time costume maker with stars in her eyes and memories of...

This remarkable documentary tells the amazing story of Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who rose to superstardom at the beginning of the 20th century as sideshow attractions, performing alongside the likes of Bob Hope and Charlie Chaplin. Ruthlessly exploited by their managers, the sisters ultimately sued for their freedom-which they won at a terrible cost. A gripping, roller-coaster tale of showbiz tragedy, BOUND BY FLESH puts a touchingly...

Stage-sisters Caridad Amaran and Georgina Wong, both of Chinese descent, learned the art of Cantonese opera from their fathers in Havana, Cuba in the 1930s. Caridad’s Chinese foster father immigrated to Cuba in the 1920s after his family forbade him to perform opera. Georgina’s father was a famous tailor in a Havana Chinatown, who encouraged her to learn kung-fu and traditional Chinese dance. The daughters spent their youth performing throughout...

50%-FRAUENQUOTE IN DER THEATERREGIE: DAS ENDE DER KUNST? Als die Leiterin des renommierten Berliner Theatertreffens Yvonne Büdenhölzer im Jahr 2019 die 50%-Frauenquote einführte, wurde sie scharf kritisiert. Schließlich verleitet die Quote geradezu reflexhaft zum Widerspruch: Trifft die eingeladenen Regisseurinnen nicht der Generalverdacht, dass sie es nur aufgrund der Frauenquote ins Rampenlicht geschafft haben? Ist bei so einer Vorgabe sogar...