Reviewer's Rating Sex/Crime Phil Setren 29/01/2020The nature of self-hate is positioned as a strange bedfellow beside intimacy and chemically enhanced sex in this sharp, darkly...
Reviewers Rating The Woman in Black Austin Fimmano 24/01/2020It’s a ghost story in a pub. Or more specifically, the Club Car at the McKittrick Hotel. The atmosphere of...
Reviewer's rating Boys Blake Gordon Plante 23/01/2020The greatest kind of theatre doesn’t call for a reviewer, it calls for a worshipper. BOYS by ThePappyShow is worthy...
Reviewer's Rating Les Misérables Grace Creaton-Barber 19/01/2020Everybody raise a glass to the masterpiece that is Les Misérables – revamped, restaged… remarkable! Reopening such an iconic show...
Reviewer's rating La Traviata Sandra Kammel 29/12/2019Return to an age of slow living. Get comfortable in a casual corset and let your admirers watch as if...
Handel, Messiah Catherine Flutsch 24/12/2019Occasionally, a concert comes along in which every element comes together in some sort of divine perfection, creating a transcendent...
Reviewer's Rating Cinderella Richard McKee 11/12/2019“The fairy godmother of all pantomimes” is what the blurb says, and no doubt about it, that’s absolutely right! Cinderella...
Reviewer's Rating Death in Venice Tim Hochstrasser 10/12/2019This opera is one where the biographical context of the composer is more than usually relevant. With his health failing...
Reviewer's Rating Nutcracker Rouge Austin Fimmano 26/11/2019The Nutcracker: an innocuous, family-friendly ballet that has become a Christmas tradition. Nutcracker Rouge: the part-burlesque, part-circus, part-cabaret, all-around celebration...
Reviewer's Rating Carmen Mel Cooper 21/11/2019I caught up with the new WNO production of Bizet’s Carmen the other night in Oxford and can report that...
