Reviewer's rating Cavalleria Rusticana/ Pagliacci Josi Steinfeld 05/12/2023Cavalleria Rusticana was a late entry for an 1888 competition for young Italian composers who had not staged a performance,...
Reviewer's Rating Taming Who? Tim Hochstrasser 04/12/2023I have written here before of the remarkable and under-appreciated work done by Inter-Mission Youth Theatre, and their latest production,...
Reviewer's rating A Woman Walks into a Bank Owen Davies 03/12/2023This is an intriguing play about a series of events that take place in Moscow in 2018. These events bring...
Reviewer's rating Don Carlo Josi Steinfeld 02/12/2023Verdi’s Don Carlo is the longest and arguably the greatest Verdi opera, based on Schiller’s play set in Phillip II’s...
Reviewer's rating Odyssey: A Heroic Pantomime Owen Davies 02/12/2023Charles Court Opera, led by John Savournin, has been putting on Christmas shows for a number of years now –...
Reviewer's rating Jack and the Beanstalk Mel Cooper 01/12/2023The tradition of the Christmas Pantomime put on by your local theatre shines brightly in Oxford at the Oxford Playhouse...
Reviewer's rating The Trials of Galileo Josi Steinfeld 30/11/2023How apt that this fascinating play about Galileo’s 1633 trial, is performed in this theatre. The Old Red Lion pub,...
Peter Pan Goes Wrong Hal Wooliscroft 29/11/2023As expected from Mischief, the company behind both this show and West End hits like The Play That Goes Wrong,...
Reviewer's Rating Elégie – Rachmaninov – a heart in exile Tim Hochstrasser 28/11/2023In recent years Lucy Parham has moved beyond her solo pianistic career to create a series of well-regarded ‘Composer Portraits’...
Reviewer's rating The Box of Delights Mel Cooper 27/11/2023I begin by affirming that the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Christmas Show for this year is a hit and that the...
