REVIEW: Summer Shakespeare season off to flying start as BMH’s ‘topical, assured and heart-tugging’...
It’s impossible for Shakespeare’s play, Julius Ceasar not to be topical because as long as there is a democratically elected leader anywhere in the world trying to become an...
REVIEW: ‘A spell-binding and jaw-dropping show. Greg Doran’s restaging of his RSC Venus & Adonis...
Considering its origin – written in London during lockdown (during the plague of 1592-93) and its central, gender role-reversing premise: hot-for-it female given the cold shoulder by...
REVIEW: ‘Whatever you do, don’t miss it!’ Juliet Aubrey steals the show in Noel...
The Marquise is one of Noel Coward's lesser known plays - he even referred to it himself as a "tenuous, frivolous little piece" - but disregard Noel...
REVIEW: Welcome to the House of Fun! Our House – the Madness jukebox musical –...
‘Luv it!’ purred the shaven-headed, Ageing Madness Fan (about my age) sitting next to me as the plaintive piano intro of ‘It Must Be Love’ rang out...
REVIEW: What on earth has Stan done? Pinter’s classic comedy The Birthday Party sells...
Before the actors even take to the stage, a big ‘Hooray!’ to the University of Oxford cast and crew for finally bringing a Pinter play to an...
REVIEW: ‘Has Creation done it again? Of course it has! Gothic classic Jekyll and...
The OVADA Gallery on Oxford’s Osney Lane is housed in an old warehouse with whitewashed brick walls, a long wooden staircase running up to a mezzanine section...
‘It’s like a big episode of Taskmaster’ Alternative improv troupe ‘Perfect Show for Rachel’...
"It's a motorway of a show," Flo O'Mahony concedes with a grin. Currently touring 'Perfect Show for Rachel', an ad lib, improvised, madcap, anarchic, accessible, riot of...
REVIEW: ‘There’s blood on the begonias!’ Death, bonking and sandwich spread – cue Midsomer...
It's all going on at Badger's Drift it would seem. So if you are partial to nosy neighbours, infidelity, al fresco bonking, avid pruning, jealousy, rivalry and...
Banbury’s Noah Wild brings his new play ‘With All My Fondest Love’ to OFS...
A heartbroken Noah Wild came across a box of his grandparents love letters in the loft aged 17, during his A Levels: "They were very dusty and...
REVIEW: ‘Take a bow director Simon Tavener: a timely and relevant treat’ OTG’s Murder in...
Reviewers (including myself) often like to prattle on about how relevant an old play is to today, but in staging T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral at...
