REVIEW: “This is Macbeth but not as you know it. A modern day make-over...
Be prepared to be wowed by this very different interpretation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and immerse yourself in an inspired play list of classic rock music.
The brilliant, clever...
REVIEW: Sometimes the best things in life are free. Sprinting around ‘Oxford Open Doors’...
Oxford Open Doors was proof that sometimes the best things in life are free
REVIEW: Why you should go and see David Hare play Skylight, at The Theatre...
Written by David Hare in 1995, Skylight is uncomfortably voyeuristic and tantalisingly engrossing. Like a jigsaw as the plot weaves and winds fatalistically through Kyra and Tom's...
REVIEW: Second World War setting for Opera Anywhere’s Hansel and Gretel triumphs in Sunningwell
The innovative Opera Anywhere – now approaching its 20thanniversary – has come up trumps again with this lovely production of Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck’s operatic version of the...
REVIEW: Licence to thrill – Creation goes from strength to strength with Don Quixote...
Where to start with Don Quixote in Oxford’s Covered Market? Perhaps as Creation does with a man urinating into a saucepan, an instant reminder that whether you’ve...
REVIEW: Last chance to see the brilliant Romeo & Juliet at Blenheim’s Rose Theatre
THE PRIZE MUST GO TO A DAZZLING JULIET, PLAYED SO SPELLBINDINGLY BY ELLA DUNLOP
Review: Toast opens at Oxford Playhouse fresh from the West End….with free sweets. It’s...
Having been previously berated, and rightly so, for snacking noisily during theatrical performances, to then be presented with not just a handful of retro pick ‘n’ mix sweets but...
Review: War Horse is back in Oxford, but is it as good this time...
Although The New Theatre has welcomed back the award-winning drama War Horse, having sold out last time around, expectations for the internationally acclaimed production, beloved by so...
REVIEW: Sex, drugs and a VW camper van. Little Miss Sunshine – the musical...
The irony of Little Miss Sunshine is that as a musical it does work. The whole wonderful story pans out in full technicolor glory, the Hoovers dysfunctional...
REVIEW: FAIRIES, MAGIC AND A SUPERB BOTTOM! A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Blenheim Palace’s...
The mid-summer weather may well have tried it’s hardest to turn Shakespeare’s joyous and much-loved comedy of twinkly fairy magic and poetic sweetness into more of a...
