Musical set during the Pendle Witch trials puts its feminist message front and centre with stirring songs that celebrate the sisterhood ...

But half of a good show isn’t good enough. Coven was conceived before the pandemic by actor and singer Rebecca Brewer and ...

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Coven ends in style, with a blaze of rousing determination, and it certainly feels like a story that needs telling right now.

The auspices have been good for Rebecca Brewer and Daisy Chute’s new musical Coven. Eight years in the making, the show extended into 2026 before it even began previews. With a great all-female cast ...

Directed by Miranda Cromwell, it’s a mixed bag: invigorating and galvanising on one hand, sermonic and overly explanatory on ...

Halloween is over but witches are still haunting the Kiln Theatre. Well, alleged witches, the victims of the 1633 Pendle Witch Trials whose half-known stories ...

Hamilton may have helped the West End recover from The Covid Years, but it carries its share of blame too. Perhaps that’s not ...

Coven opens in a prison in Pendle, Lancashire, 21 years after the 1612 trial. Later, an extended flashback shows Jenet – ...

This time last week, one of Nottingham's most intriguing music and arts spaces, JT Soar, played host to an ultra-eclectic ...

Cynthia Erivo, Idina Menzel and others starred as Elphaba in ‘Oz’ movies. Here’s everything to know about the actresses who ...

When Julie Aspinall was 17 and trying to discover more about being a witch, resources were limited. “Back then, it was either borrow books from the local library or you sent away by post for ...