Wales Arts Review: Baba Joon at Swansea Grand Theatre

Rhys Edwards reviews the new one-woman show from Lisa Zahra, Baba Joon, an exploration of the mixed-heritage experience in Wales...

Review | 25.10.2023

Wales Arts Review: Lisa Zahra and Izzy Rabey in conversation

As Lisa Zahra prepares to open her new play at this month, Rhys Edwards sat down to discuss writing and the rhythm of voices, with Lisa and director, Izzy Rabey...

Feature | 17.10.2023

Chortle: Is comedy back in the ITV building?

Rhys Edwards on ITVX’s recent sitcom commissions...

Feature | 25.09.2023

Chortle: That Mitchell and Webb Sound at 20

Twenty years to the day since the radio sketch show first aired, Rhys John Edwards revisits its origins...

Feature | 28.08.2023

Plays to See: Heathers at Wales Millennium Centre

Maybe it’s my British cynicism, or the fact that UK and US school environments are so different (despite what Netflix’s Sex Education would have Americans believe) but I just couldn’t get on board...

Review | 24.08.2024

Nation Cymru: Cardiff Male Voice Choir Celebrate 125th Birthday with a performance at Principality Stadium 

Cardiff Male Voice Choir is celebrating a phenomenal 125 years with what its members have described as a ‘dream opportunity’ to perform to a packed-out crowd ahead of the Wales v South Africa match this Saturday...

Feature | 15.08.2023

Plays to See: Choo Choo! at the Sherman Theatre

CHOO CHOO! – the title of this outstanding new production from StammerMouth, refers to how intrusive trains of thought can smash their way through a troubled mind and in the process, drive a close...

Review | 24.07.2024

Wales Arts Review: Nye Russell-Thompson in conversation

As the Sherman Theatre prepares to support StammerMouth productions at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Rhys Edwards sat down with StammerMouth’s founder Nye Russell-Thompson to find out more...

Feature | 18.07.2023

Welsh Agenda: ‘All these Dreams’: An interview with Eädyth Crawford

Rhys John Edwards speaks to Welsh singer songwriter Eädyth Crawford about the persisting misconceptions surrounding HIV in Wales...
Feature | 16.06.2023

Plays to See: The Ocean at the End of the Lane at Wales Millennium Centre

A child’s fight against the prospect of growing up has always been fertile ground for fantasy stories. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen it put to such good use as it is in Neil Gaiman’s...

Review | 02.06.2023

Plays to See: Es and Flo at Wales Millennium Centre

Jennifer Lunn must be relieved. Not only did Es and Flo turn out to be a remarkable and captivating play about the strength of unity in the face of adversity... 

Review | 17.05.2023

Nation Cymru: Investment in arts education will leave a lasting legacy

Cardiff’s Corpus Christi High School recently scrapped their Music GCSE. Like many schools across Wales, Corpus Christi faces rising costs and as ever, it’s the arts subjects that seem to be first in line for the chop...

Feature | 22.05.2023

Plays to See: Romeo and Julie at the Sherman Theatre

Romeo and Julie is not Romeo and Juliet.  There’s not a Montague, Capulet or even a balcony in sight... 

Review | 08.05.2023

Welsh Agenda: How opera singing can help with Long-Covid symptoms

Rhys Edwards presents a programme designed by the Welsh National Opera to help people with Long-Covid symptoms...

Feature | 21.04.2023