TRAVEL REVIEW: Why our getaway at The Castle At Edgehill near Banbury was a...
The views stretching out below the hotel and gastropub The Castle At Edgehill are literally breath-taking, framing the landscape where the Parliamentarians and Royalists first went to...
REVIEW: If music be the food of love, then play on. Wild Goose Theatre’s...
Act One, Scene One, Line One: ‘If music be the food of love, then play on.’ If the lovelorn Duke Orsino wants an excess of love then...
REVIEW: ‘Present Laughter demonstrates how relevant Noel Coward’s work is in today’s celebrity obsessed...
'Fame puts you there where things are hollow,' yells a singer at the beginning of ‘Present Laughter’, as the cast gyrate to the music.
Noel Coward understood the...
REVIEW: An unforgettably joyous and intimate evening! ENO and tenor Nicky Spence enthral at...
There was a man openly weeping in the upper tiers of Oxford Town Hall as Nicky Spence's voice reached a crescendo in Eduardo Di Capua's O Sole...
REVIEW: An inspired, moving, unique, multi-generational piece of community theatre. Why Barn Dance at...
Having famous playwright Mike Bartlett on hand to write this nostalgic wonder of a play Barn Dance was a gift for The Theatre Chipping Norton which is...
REVIEW: ‘How unutterably splendid’ The 39 Steps is a simply spiffing and fun night...
What to expect from the revived spoof of gripping spy thriller The 39 Steps? Much hilarity, laughter, silliness, farce, perfectly timed mis-timings and a plot that ripped...
REVIEW: ‘A kaleidoscopic view of a bygone era’ why Lark Rise at The Theatre,...
As the beautiful and haunting singing of the female farmhands sprang up all around us, the lady next to me whispered loudly to no one in particular,...
BOOK NEXT CONCERTS NOW: ‘One of the jewels in Oxford’s musical crown’ Instruments of...
One of the many jewels in Oxford’s musical crown is the chamber orchestra Instruments of Time and Truth, directed by Edward Higginbottom - ex-choirmaster of New College....
REVIEW: Gregory Doran’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Oxford Playhouse is ‘a superb...
More than a youthful romp in Shakespeare’s corpus, Gregory Doran’s production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona breathes new life into the early Elizabethan comedy.
Doran, after 35 years...
REVIEW: Creation ‘thrillingly shunts George Orwell’s tragically inevitable tale Animal Farm into the 21st...
From the off, Creation Theatre’s current production of George Orwell’s Animal Farm not only retains a gripping sense of unease, but thrillingly shunts the tragically inevitable original...
