REVIEW: ‘An absolutely superb evening’ Alexander Armstrong sings live in ‘The Music In My...
I am a massive Alexander Armstrong fan and listen to him presenting Classic FM at every opportunity, but I wanted to know more, and the chance to...
REVIEW: ‘Breathtakingly good’ MYCO surpasses itself at Oxford Playhouse with a night of pure...
How MYCO managed to pull off a musical of this calibre with such sheer professionalism will be the subject of much speculation, but its joyful production of...
REVIEW: Tosca at Oxford Playhouse is ‘Oxford Opera Company at its best’ – the soloists...
Not long after it’s debut performance in 1900, critic Joseph Kerman pronounced the opera Tosca, ‘that shabby little shocker’. Tosca has therefore come a long way in...
REVIEW: ‘A heartfelt gem of a play’ Remember Me at OFS – a deeply...
Walking into Oxford’s Old Fire Station is always a wonderfully warm experience, the relaxed atmosphere continuing as we took our drinks into the small, intimate theatre. However,...
REVIEW: ‘A thoroughly deserved standing ovation’ Why Ravel’s Bolero bought the OSJ audience to...
You can’t get much more of a famous classic than Ravel’s Bolero. It must surely be up there with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony – in terms of those...
REVIEW: ‘It will make you snort with laughter’ Pride & Prejudice (sort of) is...
The lady next to me at Oxford Playhouse snorted with laughter so loudly half way through the first half of Pride & Prejudice (sort of) that I...
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...
