Cabaret veterans Kit & McConnel are “like Flanders and Swann on steroids” as...
“We have much more fun than the audience does. They should be paying us, not the other way around,” James McConnel admits.
The Emmy award-winning composer, author and...
REVIEW: Second World War setting for Opera Anywhere’s Hansel and Gretel triumphs in Sunningwell
The innovative Opera Anywhere – now approaching its 20thanniversary – has come up trumps again with this lovely production of Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck’s operatic version of the...
Skylight is the limit: How Chipping Norton Theatre’s home productions go from strength to...
Skylight is David Hare's most produced work, but news that director John Terry is taking on the Olivier award-winning play, has given the home-grown production a massive...
Fascism v unicorns and other pressing issues in 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fringe show Unicorn Party...
"Unicorn Party is a very contemporary response to the crazy times we live in," Nick Field tells me when discussing his one-man show.
Unexpected, exciting and at times...
Keeping Morecambe and Wise alive: Eric and Ern are back and coming to Oxford...
It started off as a comedy sketch for a charity do in a golf club. Actor Jonty Stephens, whose impressions of Eric Morecambe were legendary, was asked...
My interview with Tyger Drew-Honey on his stage debut in POSH at Oxford Playhouse,...
The Tyger Drew-Honey sitting opposite me discussing his stage debut in POSH with such passion is not the same Tyger of yesteryear.
Yes, he still has those...
REVIEW: Licence to thrill – Creation goes from strength to strength with Don Quixote...
Where to start with Don Quixote in Oxford’s Covered Market? Perhaps as Creation does with a man urinating into a saucepan, an instant reminder that whether you’ve...
All female troupe The HandleBards cycles into Oxford with The Tempest
The HandleBards are the world’s first cycling theatre company, who carry all of their set props and costumes on the back of their bicycles, performing charmingly chaotic...
REVIEW: Last chance to see the brilliant Romeo & Juliet at Blenheim’s Rose Theatre
THE PRIZE MUST GO TO A DAZZLING JULIET, PLAYED SO SPELLBINDINGLY BY ELLA DUNLOP
The legendary Nigel Slater talks lists, recipes, inspiration, hindsight and revelation as Toast comes...
Nigel Slater loves writing lists, has done since he was a child. As a boy he would write down his father’s breakfast menu and present it to...
