Aladdin Mel Cooper 08/12/2015he pantomime season is upon us and I have just attended the Oxford Playhouse contribution to the genre for 2015...
Reviewer's Rating Wendy and Peter Pan Harry Tennison 04/12/2015lla Hickson deliberately renames her adaptation of J.M.Barrie’s classic novel, and with good reason. In this revival of their original...
Reviewer's Rating The Nutcracker Olivia Markham 30/11/2015rom the tips of fluttering snowflake fingers and gnarly rat’s claws, right down to the sturdy soldier boot, Peter Wright’s...
Reviewer's Rating The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Harry Tennison 27/11/2015he annual Christmas show is often a delight for families, providing spectacle and fun for the children, and some decent...
Reviewer's Rating Love for Love Mel Cooper 18/11/2015hough one of the most revered texts of English literature, Congreve’s “other” Restoration Comedy is rarely played these days. For...
Reviewer's Rating WNO Tour: Bellini, I Puritani; Handel, Orlando; Sondheim, Sweeney Todd Mel Cooper 10/11/2015caught up with the current Welsh National Opera season on tour in Oxford and must begin by reporting that musically...
Reviewer's rating Dry Land Rebecca Coates 05/11/2015Dry Land is about an American high school swim team. Or rather, it is about adolescence, and trauma, and the...
Reviewer's Rating STOMP Mel Cooper 20/10/2015his unique show featuring non-stop movement and percussion continues to tour and, if anything, in this incarnation, is better and...
Reviewer's rating Happy Girl and Boys Will Be Boys Rebecca Coates 11/10/2015oth Happy Girl and Boys Will Be Boys are part of the ‘Tomorrow’s Feminists Today’ section of Camden People’s Theatre’s...
Reviewer's rating Teddy Ferrara Rebecca Coates 10/10/2015eddy Ferrara is a play that refuses to fall into complacency regarding LGBT equality. It is a play that repeatedly...