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Cinderella
My first memories of the panto, half a decade ago, were of being coached off with a load of very excited kids on a works do at Christmastime – a perk of my dad’s job – and screaming ‘oh no it isn’t!’ and ‘behind you!’ to the cues of the evil stepmother. It is an… →
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The Ingram Collection: Revisiting British Art
by Carla Scarano D’Antonio The opening of the new exhibition of The Ingram Collection in the Upper Gallery of The Lightbox coincided with the launch of the book Revisiting Modern British Art (Lund Humphries, 2022) edited by Jo Baring and published in association with the Ingram Art Foundation. Chris Ingram, an entrepreneur and philanthropist who… →
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Bat Out of Hell
Bat Out of Hell was the 1977 debut album by American rock singer Meat Loaf and composer Jim Steinman and has become one of the best-selling albums in history. It was followed up by two other albums to become the Bat Out of Hell trilogy, but it is the original Bat out of HelI that… →
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Canaletto and Melissa McGill: Performance and Panorama
by Carla Scarano D’Antonio Two artists are in conversation in this Lightbox exhibition: the famous Venetian landscape painter Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697–1768), known as Canaletto, and the contemporary American New York-based artist Melissa McGill (b. 1969), who was involved in the public art project ‘Red Regatta’ in 2019 that was supported by Associazione Vela al… →
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A Window into Scottish Art
by Carla Scarano D’Antonio The Scottish landscape as a place of inspiration and the Scottish people as subjects of art are the objectives of the exhibition at The Lightbox. The display offers artworks of diverse Scottish artists from the 19th century until today. It proposes different views of how visual art has been interpreted by… →
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A Murder is Announced
By Amanda Briggs There’s nothing more pleasant than settling down to enjoy a nice English murder. For decades we have enjoyed the continuity of long-running TV series such as Morse, Midsomer Murders, and Father Brown, etc, etc, which indulge our apparent insatiable desire to resolve gruesome or seemingly inexplicable murders amidst rose-covered cottages, quaint old… →
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William Crozier: Nature into Abstraction
by Carla Scarano D’Antonio I wanted the landscape and the person to be as one in nature: William Crozier The bold brushstrokes and vibrant colours of William Crozier’s landscapes impress the viewers in the Upper Gallery at the Lightbox. The Scottish-Irish painter trained at Glasgow School of Art then settled in London for a period,… →
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Singin’ In The Rain
You can’t say it without singing it, right? Even for folks like me who have never seen the original 1952 film starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, Singin’ in the Rain has that same effect and has become the anthem to happiness in times of adversity, or simple recognition of the frequent frontal weather patterns… →
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The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
CS Lewis once wrote: “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” Having recently watched and thoroughly enjoyed the stage adaptation of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe at Woking’s New Victoria Theatre, one can see how timeless the story is. The tale… →
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Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Woking New Victoria is home and full house to ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ this week from 15 to 19 March, as it picks up its UK tour featuring Shane Richie as Jamie’s inspirational drag queen, Layton Williams as the incredible Jamie, and an exceptionally multi-talented, diverse ensemble. This is a real modern fairy tale on… →
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