Reviewer's rating Pantomime: Rapunzel Owen Davies 09/12/2023Theatre Peckham is the best sort of local theatre, rooted in the local community and putting on shows that both...
Reviewer's Rating Talking About The Fire Tim Hochstrasser 09/12/2023With the recent intense coverage of ‘Oppenheimer’, nuclear weapons are very much back under public scrutiny; so there is certainly...
Reviewer's Rating Pacific Overtures Tim Hochstrasser 08/12/2023‘Pacific Overtures’ was written in 1976, during Sondheim’s golden years, just after ‘A Little Night Music’ and before ‘Sweeney Todd’....
The Homecoming Hal Wooliscroft 06/12/2023Matthew Dunster’s production of Pinter’s iconic play retains all of its troubling power, whilst managing to give its sole female...
Reviewer's Rating Dreaming and Drowning Tim Hochstrasser 05/12/2023The intimate space of the Bush studio theatre is currently home to a fine, taut, piece of new writing by...
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 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...