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...
REVIEW: ‘The role of a lifetime’ Emily Woodward shines as Rosalind in Creation’s immensely...
Shakespeare season is upon us and striding into the ring comes Creation's As You Like It at Wycliffe Hall - the perfect summer choice. ‘It’s not summer...
REVIEW: ‘Successfully delivers laughs and romance in this thought-provoking Shakespeare comedy’ OTG’s Much Ado...
A Taylor Swift soundtrack, a wheelie-bin and Converse trainers root this current production of Much Ado About Nothing by Oxford Theatre Guild firmly in the present day....
REVIEW: ‘Chutzpah in spades’ Bittersweet musical comedy Funny Girl by Oxford Operatic Society is...
If you’re in a musical, playing a lead role made famous by Barbara Streisand and singing songs with titles such as ‘I’m The Greatest Star’, then you’re...
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...