Like a surfer delivering a tricky roundhouse cutback, US writer and actor Erin Hunter has delivered something rare, special and worth watching. In a m...
A child's fight against the prospect of growing up has always been fertile ground for fantasy stories. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen it put to such...
The touring company of Michael Rosen’s Unexpected Twist has reached Oxford and lives up to its very fine reputation. Adapted from the book by Michael ...
'Aspects of Love' was a great success at the back end of the 1980s, helping to make the name of Michael Ball through his association with its hit numb...
Unbelievably, it is getting on for twenty years now since the making of the film of 'Brokeback Mountain'. Such is its impact that it is hard to imagin...
Writer Lesley Hart and director Polina Kalinina bring plenty of zest and visual panache to this ambitious production of Russian classic Anna Karenina....
It’s an old chestnut that if you can remember the Sixties, you weren’t there, man. I can remember the sounds of the Sixties extremely well, and right...
Restaging something that has been much beloved in another format can be a double-edged sword. How do you maintain the sense of the original while givi...
Handel wrote a lot of operas and some are better than others. Agrippina was written for the Venice Carnival of 1710 and the textbooks tell us that it ...
Jennifer Lunn must be relieved. Not only did Es and Flo turn out to be a remarkable and captivating play about the strength of unity in the face of ad...