Entertainment

The What’s On agenda is getting busier and busier. With the festive season here, local events are thriving. Get ready for another weekend packed with markets, festive parades, pantomime ...

There is plenty to enjoy this festive season. Every corner of the island is in the Christmas spirit and joyous events fill up each week. Approaching soon is the Grand ...

Looking for stirring conversation, motivational stories and inspiring life tales? Then, take a note of this upcoming event in Nicosia. Following two highly successful sold-out events in Argaka and Kalopanayiotis, ...

By George Demetriades Nestled in the heart of Nicosia, on evergreen Pindarou, Beba is a restaurant that seems to have mastered the delicate art of being trendy without trying too ...

New month, new events and a rich cultural agenda. As we enter the final month of the year, the island’s arts scene is on its final stretch to showcase ...

A new theatrical folk drama will present two evenings of storytelling, culture and artistry in Larnaca. Performed in the Greek-Cypriot dialect We Live in Another Phase is an original script ...

Nicosia will host the Quantum Nicosia Marathon on Sunday for yet another year. The event is organised by the Athanasios Ktorides Foundation in collaboration with the Nicosia Municipality and, as ...

Last year, I read The English Experience by Julie Schumacher, in the course of which I discovered the existence of The Thurber Prize for American Humor – which she had won ...

The exhibition Repetitive Acts: The Power of Weaving and Textile in Contemporary Art, opening on Friday at the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, explores the enduring power of weaving as a ...

Heralded by the BBC as the Van Cliburn of today, Alexander Kobrin has placed himself at the forefront of the performing musicians in today’s international music scene. The legendary ...

Gone are the days when actors shot a movie and then moved on to their next project. With the rise of marketing and social media, promoting a film is part ...

“I want to do a crossover with the English-speaking audience,” says Athena Xenidou, sounding almost impatient. Xenidou is the director of Nachtland, a play by German writer Marius von Mayenburg ...

Music legend Elton John told a theatre audience in London on Sunday he had lost his sight after struggling to recover from an eye infection earlier in the year. The 77...

There is no shortage of artistic events this season and Nicosia is brimming with them. In parallel with the emblematic exhibition Kanthos – The Sharp Edges of History, the AG Leventis ...

Come December, every corner and establishment in Nicosia will adopt the holiday spirit of giving. Moondog’s Bar & Grill will be among the as it organises its 8th annual ...

Is it Christmas without a dose of pantomime? Probably not for the English-speaking audiences of Cyprus. Fear not, two productions are coming up this December to entertain those in Paphos ...

Ready to welcome the festive spirit of the season, the AG Leventis Gallery marks the occasion with a  Christmas event on December 7 for old and young. A whole day of ...

Back for its annual December shows is the Nicosia Youth Ballet. This year it will present the Double Bill ballet performance featuring excerpts from the classic ballet Paquita in the ...

A good beginning for people who want to get into anime is Noragami, even though its release date of 2014 makes it quite old in anime terms. And the plot is ...

An exciting agenda lies ahead with Christmas events organised by the Nicosia Municipality. Mayor Charalambos Prontzos highlighted that the Christmas Village, hosted for the second year in Laiki Yitonia, will ...

The play The Lion in Winter by James Goldman, which earned him an Academy Award for its screenplay adaptation, portrays the royal family of England on Christmas Eve in 1183. For ...

KENO Publications welcomes a renowned New York based poet, writer and performer in Cyprus next week. Sean Patrick Mulroy will be in Nicosia for a limited series of literary events ...

By Leah Kardos Kate Bush’s visionary 1985 concept album Hounds of Love was the second she had produced on her own (after The Dreaming in 1982), and the first recorded in ...

By Simon Demetriou As Alexandra Petri clearly states in her introduction, this is a book for that order of person who examines US History textbooks and exclaims, “Oh no! We ...