The Tempest Catherine Flutsch 24/07/2019Oxford’s much-loved professional theatre company, Creation Theatre, has a well-deserved reputation for taking risks in the interests of telling a...
Reviewer's Rating Die Fledermaus Owen Davies 24/07/2019The Revenge of the Bat is a better title for this insubstantial piece of Viennese musical farce. Its only claim...
Reviewer's rating Measure for Measure Mel Cooper 14/07/2019Greg Doran has directed a clean and riveting production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. It is a clear and easily...
Reviewer's Rating Don Giovanni Mel Cooper 13/07/2019The director Martin Constantine has managed to create a brilliantly witty, surprisingly moving and totally engaging production of Mozart and...
★ ★ ★ ★ Pictures of Dorian Gray Catherine Flutsch 11/07/2019Jermyn Street Theatre’s production of Pictures of Dorian Gray represents everything I love about the theatre. Working with clean simplicity...
Reviewer's Rating Stones in His Pockets Mel Cooper 10/07/2019The most striking and captivating thing about STONES IN HIS POCKETS is that two actors play all the parts, male...
Reviewer's Rating The Turn of the Screw Owen Davies 09/07/2019“I am the hidden life that stirs when the candle is out” is the line of the libretto that remains...
Reviewer's Rating Hobson’s Choice Sam Dodgshon 04/07/2019With a witty script wonderfully executed by an almost infallible cast, Tanika Gupta’s adaptation of Hobson’s Choice is a fantastic watch. She...
Reviewer's Rating Cosi fan tutte Owen Davies 30/06/2019Mozart produced three great operas with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. Cosi fan Tutte was first performed in Vienna in 1790...
Reviewer's Rating HAIR Mel Cooper 30/06/2019Oh, dear! I am having real trouble analysing this new production of the iconic musical Hair. Partly that is because...