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Broadway comes to Bermuda next month as the Gilbert & Sullivan Society unveils its new production Magic of the Musicals. Appearing in the society’s youth ensemble will be 13-year-old Onuri Smith — an actor, singer and dancer who hopes to one day turn...

Carl Paiva has been a lifelong fan of Broadway musicals — but he never dreamt he would one day be living in New York and attempting to stage one himself. The widower and retired travel agent embarked on an entirely new career as a theatre producer in...

Bermudian actor Rowan Vickers has been taking professional strides since he graduated from the prestigious Juilliard School and is now preparing to appear in an off-Broadway production exploring the horrors of slavery. He will perform alongside esta...

Owain Johnston-Barnes has won the Famous for Fifteen Minutes playwriting contest for the fifth time — but this year’s victory still came as a surprise. “To quote [director] Jim Brier, ‘OK, just give me a dice’. It all comes down to one person’s opini...

The indelible popular image of Noël Coward as a showman, bon vivant and epigram-dropping wit too often overshadows his remarkable skills as a dramatist. The one-time Bermuda resident was one of the most enduring and successful playwrights of his era...

Shakori Trott was a bundle of nerves as he sat waiting to take the stage. The 19-year-old, who is partially deaf, doesn’t always hit notes properly. He knew he’d have to sing to get a role in the musical The Colour Purple. He was about to walk out...

Isabella Zuill-McKenzie agonised over Shakespeare as a student. Her classmates usually spoke the bard’s words in such a monotone all meaning was lost. Even when she read the stories herself, she had no clue what was going on. So when BMDS held an aud...

Sometimes a simple comment can send a life spirally in a new direction. Wanda Ray Willis’s aunt once remarked that she sang “just like that Dorothy girl”, meaning actress and singer Dorothy Dandridge. Ms Ray Willis was a small child and barely knew w...

Charo Hollis loved singing but couldn’t get out of the shadow of her talented mother, Alice Lowe Green. She would hear the whispers whenever she got on stage: “That’s Alice’s daughter.” It made it difficult for her to make her own way; for a very lon...

Mark Twain famously declared that other people could go to Heaven if they wanted — he would far rather stay in his beloved Bermuda. And more than a century after his death the writer’s irreverent spirit does indeed linger on here, channelled by Berm...

The Kiwanis Clubs of Bermuda have partnered with the international educational organisation Up With People to congratulate the visiting group on their 50th anniversary. As well as performing at CedarBridge Academy today and tomorrow, Up With People ...

Students met with the international cast of Up With People yesterday as part of a culture fair. The event, held at the Berkeley Institute, allowed hundreds of students to chat to the group’s members about their home counties and their cultures. Cast ...