TESS REVIEW: ‘A thoroughly deserved standing ovation at Oxford Playhouse’ in this take on...
‘Tess – a bold vision of Hardy’s classic novel’ exclaims the posters for Ockham’s Razor’s latest production. Bold indeed – for this is the story of Tess...
REVIEW: “An absolute riot from start to finish with some jaw-dropping numbers’ Chicago hits...
Ninety-nine years ago, the wonderfully named Maurine Dallas Watkins wrote a play satirising the conflation of criminal justice, violent crime, show-business and the public’s fickle obsession with...
REVIEW: ‘Shaw’s touching, sympathetic portrayal puts Thomas More centre stage’ in A Man For...
Never in my wildest dreams could my 11-year-old self have imagined that the great Martin Shaw would go from captivating me as special agent Ray Doyle in...
REVIEW: Terence Rattigan’s ‘Summer 1954’ double bill at Oxford Playhouse highlights the ongoing need...
Terence Rattigan's Table Number Seven is a shocking reminder of the normalised homophobia which existed in the summer of 1954, the Sexual Offences Act only decriminalising homosexuality...
REVIEW: ‘If I see a better musical this year, I’ll eat my Technicolour hat!’...
"Joseph?! That’s just that old Jason Donovan musical, innit?" sniffed my builder when I told him I was off to see the now-touring London West End production...
REVIEW: Judging by the standing ovation, War Horse at New Theatre Oxford has lost...
If it's a light, festive, Christmassy show you're after then War Horse isn't for you. But if you want to experience one of the most moving, immersive...
REVIEW: “This experience has been the best luxury of my life” Michael Palin explores...
As droll and down-to-earth as ever, Sir Michael Palin arrived on stage at The Sheldonian to riotous applause, the sold out audience keen to hear of his...
REVIEW: Hansel & Grettel ‘The most fun you’ll have this Christmas’ Enjoy Creation’s thrilling,...
Creation has pulled it out of the bag again, their riveting adaption of the Brothers Grimm classic Hansel & Grettel at North Wall unstoppable from the word...
REVIEW: Rachel Nicholls stuns in Oxford Opera Company’s ‘fabulous’ Ambassadors Recital as Oxford Playhouse...
Oxford Opera Company brought dramatic soprano Rachel Nicholls and pianist Iain Burnside to the exquisite new Levine theatre in the grounds of Trinity College for a fabulous...
REVIEW: ‘Dear Evan Hansen made us sob our hearts out. One of the best...
It's not an easy story-line, Dear Evan Hansen's coming-of-age tale depicting suicide, social anxiety, depression, grief and loneliness in young people to a heart-breaking degree.
But with Gen...
