REVIEW: ‘Achieves that rare feat of successfully tackling contentious issues with lashings of humour’...
For those late to the party, which I confess I am, Kim’s Convenience is a 2011 play by Ins Choi which was developed into a smash Netflix...
REVIEW: ‘Out Of Chaos’ Macbeth is not only admirably accessible but sparkles with originality...
Macbeth is Shakespeare’s shortest and darkest tragedy. At Oxford Playhouse yesterday evening, Out of Chaos theatre company kept it short (edited down to just one hour and...
REVIEW: ‘A night of surprises, laughs and banter via the best up-and-coming comics’ Jericho...
There can't be a more Oxford night out than tickets to Jericho Comedy's Saturday night stand-up at Common Ground on Little Clarendon Street. Because not only will...
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...
