REVIEW: ‘Not to be missed’ OTG’s The Tempest in Oxford University Parks ‘had us...
'Captured by Caliban, awed by Ariel' - the two spirits (played respectively and brilliantly by Mark Fiddaman and Niall McDaid) were the linchpins in Oxford Theatre Guild’s...
REVIEW: “Literally breathtaking” Giffords Circus’ new show ¡Carpa! is a zesty slice of Mexican...
The Blenheim run of Giffords Circus sold out weeks before the cavalcade of gleaming crimson carriages rode into Woodstock, the lure of half term and the Jubilee...
REVIEW: Every child should see ‘Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World’ at Oxford...
What to expect from Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World? An educational run through of famous women in history? A predictable parade of heavily costumed matriarchs?...
REVIEW: ‘So much more than a period piece of black history’ Catch The Mountaintop...
Passionate, provocative, funny, angry, rousing, moving - The Mountaintop by Katori Hall (herself from the southern States) imagines the final night of Dr Martin Luther King before...
REVIEW: 10/10. Why even the Austen purists are queueing up to see this modern...
I was scanning the faces outside Oxford Playhouse anxiously, trying to ascertain whether the purists had enjoyed the brave new adaption of Persuasion we'd enjoyed so much.
Were...
REVIEW: “What a joyful evening. Uniformly excellent. Please go!” Oxford Opera Company’s Magic Flute...
What a joyful evening! Mozart meets Pantomime in “The Magic Flirt” (oops, “Flute”), a bawdy take on this classic English-version opera, directed by Paul Carr.
Despite the modern...
REVIEW: “A very telling portrait of modern men” Catch The Wellspring at Oxford Playhouse...
Playwright Barney Norris, and his famous pianist and broadcaster father, David Owen Norris, curated their life stories during Covid lockdowns for this - The Wellspring at Oxford...
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...
REVIEW: ‘They’ve done it!’ OTG’s colour coded characters bring Nicholas Nickleby to life at...
“What a challenge! Squeezing Charles Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby, some thousand pages long, filled with more than 50 characters, into 2.5 hours on the Oxford Playhouse stage is no...
REVIEW: Private Lives with Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge “is a delightful, farcical, amusing...
From the moment Nigel Havers stepped out onto his terrace in Deauville, there was a visible shift in the audience, and we were swept away on Noel...
