Bruce Norris had a great success with his play Clybourne Park in American and in the UK when it was first done and on the evidence of this fine produc...
John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men was an unexpected success when it was published; but as I understand it, he was still somewhat dissatisfied wit...
The new production of King Lear directed intelligently by Max Webster and highlighting a powerful performance by Michael Pennington is touring at the ...
I was deeply impressed by the Ballet Lorent’s retelling in dance of Snow White. A seriously impressive show in the idiom of contemporary dance and aim...
I normally dislike “what if” novels and plays, rewrites of or projections onto history, so I was quite sceptical about the play King Charles III by Mi...
I was very keen to catch up with this play, which is now touring extensively in a solidly cast and directed production. It has become a work of some h...
The pantomime season is upon us and I have just attended the Oxford Playhouse contribution to the genre for 2015 – Aladdin. As always, there are outra...
The extensive January-through-May Spring tour of the Richard Alston Dance Company ended at the Oxford Playhouse on 27 May this year. They are next app...
Tom Stoppard’s truly wonderful play, Arcadia, is something of a jigsaw puzzle and just as much a crossword puzzle. It is a contemplation of the develo...
