REVIEW: “This is Macbeth but not as you know it. A modern day make-over...
Be prepared to be wowed by this very different interpretation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and immerse yourself in an inspired play list of classic rock music.
The brilliant, clever...
REVIEW: ‘In terms of bringing you a Wuthering Heights to remember, this is it...
Wuthering Heights' reputation as one of the literary world's great love stories has always been fiercely contested, but in Inspector Sands version it's incontrovertibly ignored, more morality...
REVIEW: “A poignant reflection on their lives” Dinner With Groucho at Oxford Playhouse addresses...
Frank McGuinness' new play Dinner With Groucho imagines the conversation between the poet, literary critic and publisher T.S. Eliot and comedian Groucho Marx when they met for...
REVIEW “A blisteringly good stomp through my youth” ‘Bat Out Of Hell – The...
Cards on the table. I am a passionate Bat out of Hell fan. From teenage angst right up to my current loud, middle aged kitchen discos, the album has...
REVIEW: Jack Savoretti bares his soul to his wife live at the New Theatre...
Jack Savoretti's night at New Theatre Oxford, as part of his 'Singing to Strangers' tour, left quite an impression. Disarmingly intimate throughout, thanks to his wife being...
Review: “Truly a shared experience.” Why Creation’s Alice is leading the way in live...
Given that Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass - were written in Oxford, it seems highly appropriate that the Oxford based Creation Theatre Company has chosen to...
REVIEW: “The most enchanting and captivating 45 minutes of escapism” Take your children to...
After being dispatched to the picturesque Sunnymead Meadow to watch Creation Theatre’s outdoor performance of The Wind in the Willows, my nine year old and I didn’t...
REVIEW: Gregory Doran’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Oxford Playhouse is ‘a superb...
More than a youthful romp in Shakespeare’s corpus, Gregory Doran’s production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona breathes new life into the early Elizabethan comedy.
Doran, after 35 years...
REVIEW: ‘Chutzpah in spades’ Bittersweet musical comedy Funny Girl by Oxford Operatic Society is...
If you’re in a musical, playing a lead role made famous by Barbara Streisand and singing songs with titles such as ‘I’m The Greatest Star’, then you’re...
REVIEW: Private Peaceful at Oxford Playhouse captures the futility and horror of war at...
The irony of watching a play that questions the futility of war wasn't lost on last night's Oxford Playhouse audience.
Set in the trenches of WW1, Private Peaceful...
