REVIEW: “What a joyful evening. Uniformly excellent. Please go!” Oxford Opera Company’s Magic Flute...
What a joyful evening! Mozart meets Pantomime in “The Magic Flirt” (oops, “Flute”), a bawdy take on this classic English-version opera, directed by Paul Carr.
Despite the modern...
REVIEW: “A very telling portrait of modern men” Catch The Wellspring at Oxford Playhouse...
Playwright Barney Norris, and his famous pianist and broadcaster father, David Owen Norris, curated their life stories during Covid lockdowns for this - The Wellspring at Oxford...
REVIEW: Private Peaceful at Oxford Playhouse captures the futility and horror of war at...
The irony of watching a play that questions the futility of war wasn't lost on last night's Oxford Playhouse audience.
Set in the trenches of WW1, Private Peaceful...
REVIEW: ‘They’ve done it!’ OTG’s colour coded characters bring Nicholas Nickleby to life at...
“What a challenge! Squeezing Charles Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby, some thousand pages long, filled with more than 50 characters, into 2.5 hours on the Oxford Playhouse stage is no...
REVIEW: Private Lives with Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge “is a delightful, farcical, amusing...
From the moment Nigel Havers stepped out onto his terrace in Deauville, there was a visible shift in the audience, and we were swept away on Noel...
REVIEW: Mrs Delgado, Mike Bartlett’s mischievous gift of a play at Oxford Playhouse, shines...
Mike Bartlett's Christmas offering at OFS has achieved something of a cult status, creating a box office frenzy as soon as the dates are released.
Simple, domestic and...
REVIEW: The Dresser starring Matthew Kelly and Julian Clary is at Oxford Playhouse ’til...
The irony wasn't lost on us, a masked audience watching a play about bombs raining down on a theatre during the Blitz in 1942... the show must...
REVIEW: ‘A wild ride of sex, sci-fi, and the catchiest tunes in musical theatre’...
Surrounded by men in lingerie and women in gold sequinned top hats was just the start of a wonderfully weird, frivolous and funny night at the New...
REVIEW: ‘Brilliant to the very last note!’ 9 to 5 The Musical is at...
'9 to 5 The Musical' bursting onto Oxford's New Theatre stage was nothing short of life-affirming, a glorious riot of colour, characters, comedy, song, dance and hope.
I'd...
REVIEW: ‘Painfully funny to watch’ Catch Stewart Lee’s ‘splendidly dexterous comedic experience’ at Oxford...
Stewart Lee's distinctive style and appealing delivery were in plentiful supply at Oxford Playhouse this week after a two year absence, his deadpan, weary and resigned delivery...
