REVIEW: ‘Exciting, unsettling, darkly humorous, satirical and life-affirming” OTG brings Gormenghast to OFS
The 900 page Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake has been sitting defiantly unread on my bookshelf for a couple of years now.
Not having the patience for long...
REVIEW: ‘Reserve a ticket’ Rambert Dance’s ‘Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby’ at...
Opening amid the horrors of Flanders, before sweeping in to post-war industrial Birmingham, Rambert Dance's adaption of Peaky Blinders was always going to be dark, judging by...
REVIEW: A Raisin In The Sun is a life defining play that you can’t...
Headlong's revival of A Raisin In the Sun at Oxford Playhouse will stay with me for a long time to come thanks to its depth, rawness, emotive...
REVIEW: ‘Lively, fun and colourful’ Don’t miss Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at New Theatre...
There were so many unexpected things to enjoy in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; the incredible energy, the sheer scale of the singing and dancing, the stunning choreography,...
REVIEW: ‘100% go! Switched up for the modern day, Grease The Musical at New...
Grease is a hard act to follow, the 1978 cult film with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John such a beloved multi-generational classic that everyone has seen it...
REVIEW: Floella Benjamin’s Coming to England is uplifting, joyful and positive despite its often...
The stage is one giant telly. The lights dim. It switches on and all the middle-aged mums and dads in the Oxford Playhouse audience are giddily transported...
REVIEW: Just don’t miss ‘& Juliet’ – the empowering, new, high octane, Gen Z...
"What if Juliet doesn't kill herself?" William Shakespeare's wife Anne asks him as he prepares for the opening night of Romeo & Juliet, "because your ending's shit."
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REVIEW: ‘For a quintessential English summer evening of divine music in exquisite gardens, go to...
Be challenged, be delighted, be entranced, be well-entertained! For the perfect, quintessential English summer evening of divine music in exquisite gardens, go to this year’s Waterperry Opera Festival....
REVIEW: ‘Hats off to MYCO! We’re very tempted to return for tonight’s second and...
It took the MYCO cast all of ten seconds to lose their opening-night nerves. From thereon in, I could only marvel at my fortunate in attending their...
REVIEW: ‘You’d need a cold heart not to be blown away by the dancing’...
The press release for last night's performance of Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance - A Lifetime of Standing Ovations at Oxford's New Theatre confidently plays the...
