Jenkins’ Purpose, Solomon Jasper, a Civil Rights icon, describes to his son Nazareth his newfound appreciation for beekeeping. Part of the appeal of bees to him is that “they are literally born with a ...

"Working beehives you've got to be totally relaxed," says Frank Lindsay, a man with more than half-a-century's worth of experience tending to bees ... Frank is a life member of several beeclubs ...

DOC/FEST: Paramount Global-owned terrestrial Channel 5 in the UK has commissioned factual two-parter The Secret Life of Bees. The 2×60’ documentary, produced by UK indie Honey Bee and WPP-backed ...

A jewel of a musical. The Secret Life of Bees, Almeida Theatre until May 27 Tickets: 020 7359 4404 ...

Most of the people in this parade are the Black women who tend the bees that produced this honey, creatures with a covetable sense of community, ready to unite against danger to the hive. Along with ...

The Secret Life of Bees at Almeida Theatre (Image: Marc Brenner) These women are all fiercely intelligent, including uneducated Rosaleen, and Abiona Omonua brings an extraordinary guttural edge to ...

The Secret Life of Bees embraces many troubling tropes, mixes them all up in a musical bran tub, and - I think - synthesises something new A collaboration between award-winning author Lynn Nottage ...

Standouts include an earth-shaking number of female solidarity and resolution, the rippling, honey-sweet, smoke-wreathed title ballad as August teaches Lily to tend the bees, and rousing songs of ...

On the turn of the season, a new musical arrives that makes the air feel fresh. The Secret Life of Bees feels like a new kind of crowd-pleaser: joyful and inclusive. Based on Sue Monk Kidd’s ...

On the turn of the season, a new musical arrives that makes the air feel fresh. The Secret Life of Bees feels like a new kind of crowd-pleaser: joyful and inclusive. Based on Sue Monk Kidd’s 2001 ...