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24 July 2018
‘Captivating and glorious’ says reviewer Preston Witts RICHARD STRAUSS’S opera Ariadne auf Naxos could easily be subtitled ‘A lighter look at Greek Tragedy’. Along…
22 July 2018
Miss is a hit finds Gill Sutherland. Miss Littlewood runs until 4th August There’s been some weird subjects made into musicals – Carrie, The Rocky Horror…
07 July 2018
Barmy Britain brilliantly done Steve Sutherland reviews The Canterbury Tales, Dream Factory, Playbox Theatre, Warwick, until Saturday, 7th July There’s…
06 July 2018
Preston Witts reviews La Traviata, and catches up with soprano Claire Egan UNDERSTUDIES rarely get the opportunity to have their names in bright lights,…
19 June 2018
Preston Witts reviews the The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Holländer) at Longborough Festival Opera, and previews the rest of the festival, which runs…
14 June 2018
Steve Sutherland reviews Giffords Circus - on tour throughout the summer. Book tickets at http: www.giffordscircus.com WHEN my daughter Molly was two,…
13 June 2018
#WeAreArrested and Day of the Living, RSC Mischief Festival at The Other Place, until 23rd June Two very different plays but with a common political purpose…
13 June 2018
Peter Buckroyd reviews Latin America meets Classical, Orchestra of the Swan at Holy Trinity Church, 5th June It’s rather unusual to have a classical music…
07 June 2018
Molly Sutherland reviews Furnace for your Foe, at Playbox, 4th June Calum Blackie, left, and Syd Sutherland. It’s heart-wrenching to watch a 15-year-old…
16 May 2018
Clive Peacock reviews LEAMINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL, BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND, 4th to 8th May Record attendances, record temperatures plus another imaginative…
09 May 2018
Gill Sutherland reviews Romeo and Juliet at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, until 21st September As I currently inhabit a house full of teenagers I can fully…
03 May 2018
Deirdre Shields reviews Saint James’s Singers and Players – Mozart Requiem/Haydn Theresienmesse, St Mary’s Church, Warwick – Saturday 14 April The Saint…
01 May 2018
Steve Sutherland reviews MAD at the Dream Factory, Warwick YOU have to laugh! In what may yet turn out to be the darkest irony ever, MAD is actually the…
30 April 2018
Lilies on the Land, The Bear Pit Theatre Company, 21st April While the sun shone on the joyous Birthday Celebrations last Saturday I joined a packed house…
20 April 2018
Steve Sutherland reviews Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich (Or The Beau Defeated), RSC, Swan Theatre, until 14th June These hallowed walls have lately born…
04 April 2018
Macbeth, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, until 18th September, then Barbican, London until January 2019 IF ever there were a Macbeth for our time, the current…
03 April 2018
Anna Pike reviews The Woman in the Moon, Edward’s Boys, King Edward VI School, Saturday, 10th March. The Boys are currently performing the production…
03 April 2018
Les Misérables, Stratford Musical Theatre Company, Stratford ArtsHouse, 9th March Stratford Musical Theatre Company had a simple dream: they wanted to…
03 April 2018
Peter Buckroyd reviews Habeas Corpus VANESSA Corner’s lively production of Alan Bennett’s 1973 play Habeas Corpus is a lot of fun. It’s a mildly satirical…
22 March 2018
Steve Sutherland reviews The Duchess of Malfi, at the Swan Theatre, until 3rd August WHAT a bloody mess! Literally and, unfortunately, figuratively, director…
