O stay and hear,” sings Twelfth Night’s jester Feste in his song “O mistress mine”, “your true love’s coming,/ That can sing ...

The late-night party ... with the text. Michael Grady-Hall’s Feste is a between-scenes panto entertainer with a Charlie Chaplin gait and an endless box of tricks. It’s all full of chirrupy ...

That mixture of nuanced details and broad strokes is of a piece with an evening that’s attentive to the text and seizes every ... and winning turns to do full justice to; the show reflects ...

Before I’d reach my flat, my phone flashed with a ‘Hey’ text from my new contact ... think he deserved jail time.) When is Twelfth Night 2025 and what is the history of the tradition?

Do you know the history of Twelfth Night? Here's how it came to be known as the start of the Carnival season in New Orleans.

Sound familiar? Instead of being the culmination of the Christmas holiday, Twelfth Night in New Orleans is just the beginning of a season full of parties, merriment and costumes. Many also ...

While for some this may simply be an easy schedule to follow, for Christians it’s about recognising the festival of Twelfth Night, followed by Epiphany. The 12 days of Christmas began on ...

Up until the 19th Century, Christmas would be celebrated for a full 12 days, which is why Twelfth Night was an important marker in the calendar. It’s probably exactly when the Shakespeare comedy ...

Depending on religion, Twelfth Night is either the 5 or 6 January and is traditionally when Christmas decorations are taken down. This date marks the end of the twelve days of Christmas and ...