Review: Oxford Lieder’s Weekend of Song was “quite simply glorious” and is still available...
If there were awards for making a virtue out of necessity, then Oxford Lieder would surely be in the running for the top prize.
Having successfully put...
REVIEW: ‘Simply ripping’ What would you do for love? Somerset Maugham’s The Circle brings...
What would you do for love? Would you leave your husband or wife, lover, partner? Abandon your home and children? Relinquish your security, social standing, money and...
REVIEW: ‘Everything I wanted from an opera’ English Touring Opera’s Rake’s Progress hits Oxford...
English Touring Opera brought The Rake’s Progress and Puccini’s Manon Lescaut to Oxford Playhouse this week. In her programme notes, Director Polly Graham appropriately describes Stravinsky’s ‘The Rake’s...
“Deliciously innovative” Steak night and A Christmas Carol? Thanks to Hawksmoor and Creation you...
Those who don't want to embrace the wind, rain and statistics can rest assured that thanks to Hawksmoor and Oxford's Creation Theatre, you can still be fed,...
REVIEW: ‘Not for the faint-hearted’: Brilliant award-winning play Blue Orange at Oxford Playhouse is...
Award-winning, controversial, hard-hitting - just three of the adjectives which enticed me to Oxford Playhouse last night to see Blue Orange which runs until Saturday.
Set in...
REVIEW: Educating Rita, at Oxford Playhouse all week, is as brilliant as ever. But...
Educating Rita really got me thinking.
I mean here's a play written in 1980 by Willy Russell to highlight the disparities between the classes, sexes and education, in...
REVIEW: “Uplifting and emotional, ‘Becoming Electra: A Queer Mitzvah’ at OFS caught me by...
"'There’s one life and no return or deposit” is a line that lingers in my mind"
Electra is wearing fairy lights and singing ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ in her London...
Review: “Truly a shared experience.” Why Creation’s Alice is leading the way in live...
Given that Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass - were written in Oxford, it seems highly appropriate that the Oxford based Creation Theatre Company has chosen to...
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: Waterperry Opera Festival’s The Elixir of Love is ‘a fabulous production’ delivered with...
The Waterperry Opera Festival opened on Thursday evening with Donizetti’s sparkling comedy The Elixir of Love, delivered with the kind of energy, fun and inventiveness that have become...
