‘Brilliantly performed and perfectly polished’ Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical hits Oxford’s New Theatre
Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical, based on the true story of a group of Cornish fishermen who’ve been singing a cappella on the Platt (harbour) in St Isaac since 1995,...
Madama Butterfly and Aida ‘delivered in spades’ at Oxford’s New Theatre followed by Ukrainian...
Stupendous, stunning, spectacular - all the things we’ve come to expect from Ellen Kent productions over the past four decades, and the performances of Madama Butterfly and Aida...
REVIEW: ‘A morality tale for our times’ Complicité ‘has triumphed’ with Plow Over the...
Complicité, with its multi-media devised production of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, at Oxford Playhouse this week, has triumphed.
Not so much a fairy...
REVIEW: “The musical that razzamatazz was invented for” The Cher Show hits Oxford’s New...
I’m not sure I’ve got enough superlatives in my arsenal to do justice to a show that the word “razzamatazz” was invented for.
Fast, fun, and fabulous,...
REVIEW: “The audience was absolutely spellbound” Catch Shawshank Redemption at Oxford Playhouse all week
The air of menace that pervaded Oxford Playhouse was palpable as Shawshank Redemption's corrupt tale of incarceration, greed and survival began this week.
Any doubters wondering if this...
REVIEW: “Moving, funny and thought-provoking. Go see” The electrifying new production of Frankenstein at...
February 1 is the anniversary of Mary Shelley’s death in 1851 so it seemed a fitting night to go and see a new production of Frankenstein at the Old Fire...
REVIEW: “Surely OXOPS isn’t an amateur company?” Evita at Oxford Playhouse is “uniformly first-rate”...
What a fabulous evening! The Oxford Operatic Society's (OXOPS) production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita hit every high note at a packed Oxford Playhouse last night.
Apart...
Crumple’s Christmas Adventure takes Oxford’s young theatre-goers on a magical journey!
Oxford's little people are loving Crumple’s Christmas Adventure and its magical storytelling at the BT Studio over the festive season.
The perfect introduction to theatre for those aged...
REVIEW: Mamma Mia! at Oxford’s New Theatre is the perfect antidote this Christmas
The couple behind us at Oxford's New Theatre had never seen Mamma Mia the film or the musical and had no idea what was about to unfold....
REVIEW: ‘The Tale of the Beauty and The Tail of The Beast’ is a...
From the moment that Monsieur Affable’s Performing Players' bound onto the North Wall stage we were hooked.
Hooked and enchanted, as the 18th century eccentric, scruffy, cantankerous, vain,...
