Reviewer's Rating Oh, What A Lovely War! Tim Hochstrasser 25/11/2023 834It is sixty years now since the first production of ‘Oh, What A Lovely War’, one of the stand-out artistic...
Reviewer’s Rating The Snow Queen Ben Reiss 25/11/2023 1133On the first bitterly cold night of winter, with a biting wind skirling around Edinburgh Castle’s rocky summit, frost twinkling...
Reviewer's rating The Witches Tobi Philips (8) 24/11/2023 1523Dahl’s 1988 novel undergoes a worthy theatrical adaptation, turning the eerie into the absurd and the creepy into a continuous...
Reviewer's Rating The Mongol Khan Tim Hochstrasser 23/11/2023 1281Epic accounts of Asiatic history, crammed with extravagant dance, music and costumes, sweep through London theatres with some regularity; and...
Reviewer's rating The Wizard of Oz Mel Cooper 21/11/2023 1276The Christmas show at the tiny Watermill Theatre this year is a new adaptation of Frank Baum’s iconic novel for...
Reviewer's Rating Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen Tim Hochstrasser 20/11/2023 1049While many shows that succeed at the Edinburgh Fringe later transfer to London, it is by no means certain that...
Reviewer's rating Hansel and Gretel Owen Davies 20/11/2023 1126Hansel and Gretel is a very strange opera. Written by Humperdinck for a first performance in 1893 (conducted by Richard...
Reviewer's Rating Respighi: Opera Double Bill Tim Hochstrasser 17/11/2023 1013As so often, the Guildhall School is going where the leading opera houses fear to tread. This term’s opera production...
Radio Gaga Julie Peakman 15/11/2023 1330This is not a musical but a music tribute to Queen. At first I thought I was going to see...
Reviewer's Rating Made in Chelsea Tim Hochstrasser 13/11/2023 1018It is not often these days that a new comedy arrives that self-consciously models itself on Wilde and Wodehouse. On...