Reviewer's rating La Bohème Mel Cooper 02/12/2022The WNO is touring a La Bohème that gets most things about the opera right. The production by Annabel Arden...
The Fabulist Fox Sister – A Musical Lie Adi Ginat 30/11/2022Set New York and the year is 1892. What started as a fun prank by two young sisters – Maggie,...
Reviewer's ranting Beautiful The Carole King Musical Mel Cooper 30/11/2022The hit jukebox musical Beautiful – The Carole King Musical has been adapted for a production in which all the...
Reviewers' ratings Triggered Paul Richards 30/11/2022When presenting politicians, dramatists so often create murderous monsters, such as the Underwoods in House of Cards. Or virtuous saints,...
Reviewer's rating An Edinburgh Christmas Carol Ben Reiss 28/11/2022It’s been a mere three years since The Lyceum last staged An Edinburgh Christmas Carol. However, it is easy to...
Reviewer's Rating It’s A Wonderful Life Tim Hochstrasser 26/11/2022The 1946 Frank Capra film ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ was not a success when new, but has since become an...
Reviewer's Rating Dinner with Groucho Tim Hochstrasser 23/11/2022This new play by Frank McGuinness began life in Ireland to mark the twentieth anniversary of the b*spoke theatre company,...
Reviewer's rating The Rocky Horror Show Richard McKee 23/11/2022The programme for this show is rather unusual. It contains photographs of the actors along with their CVs, as well...
Reviewer's Rating Alcina Tim Hochstrasser 21/11/2022On the face of it, Handel operas should not work. Bafflingly complicated plots and a long series of ‘Da Capo’...
Life’s a Drag Julie Peakman 19/11/2022A young woman bounces onto the stage full of energy and dances her heart out. From then on, this one-women...
