REVIEW: “Malory Towers is an irresistibly alluring package of stagecraft, music and characters –...
Emma Rice attributes her adaption of Malory Towers' enormous success to the casting, and after it's performance at Oxford Playhouse I realised she was spot on -...
REVIEW: GREASE IS THE WORD – SEXY, FAST AND FURIOUS – AND THAT’S JUST...
If you only go and see one show this week, make it Grease at The New Theatre in Oxford, for two hours of pure pleasure with high...
REVIEW: “In a world of injustice, it feels as though a wrong has been...
The late August Wilson was one of the great 20th century American playwrights. Two Trains Running is part of his 10 play compilation The American Century Cycle which...
REVIEW: “A provocative piece for these unruly times.” Famous playwright David Edgar’s one man...
Whatever you think of his politics, you can’t fault his honesty. David Edgar has described his almost-solo show as a ‘conversation with his 20-year-old self’, and neither...
REVIEW: Stephen Fry is touring for the first time in 40 years, but it...
When sent to boarding school 200 miles from home aged seven, Stephen Fry told us: “I found very rapidly that I was not good at much that...
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: Sometimes the best things in life are free. Sprinting around ‘Oxford Open Doors’...
Oxford Open Doors was proof that sometimes the best things in life are free
REVIEW: Why you should go and see David Hare play Skylight, at The Theatre...
Written by David Hare in 1995, Skylight is uncomfortably voyeuristic and tantalisingly engrossing. Like a jigsaw as the plot weaves and winds fatalistically through Kyra and Tom's...
REVIEW: Second World War setting for Opera Anywhere’s Hansel and Gretel triumphs in Sunningwell
The innovative Opera Anywhere – now approaching its 20thanniversary – has come up trumps again with this lovely production of Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck’s operatic version of the...
REVIEW: Licence to thrill – Creation goes from strength to strength with Don Quixote...
Where to start with Don Quixote in Oxford’s Covered Market? Perhaps as Creation does with a man urinating into a saucepan, an instant reminder that whether you’ve...
