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24 April 2017
Steve Sutherland reviews The Hypocrite at The Swan Theatre – on until Saturday, 29 th April You know that Julius Caesar wot’s on next door at the RSC…
13 April 2017
Rough, ready and yet totally convincing... Ronnie Mulryne reviews the Tread the Boards production running until 23rd April FROM its first-ever performances…
07 April 2017
Empire lacks force Steve Sutherland reviewed the 23rd March performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre ‘Brutus is Obama and Trump is Mark Antony.’ The…
07 April 2017
What a Cleopatra coming at you! Production reviewed 23rd March While the nation gets embroiled in a debate about who’s got the best legs — May or Sturgeon…
03 April 2017
Steve Sutherland reviews the production from 18th March ALL’S Well That Ends Well is a seldom-staged, hence little known, work by Shakespeare, dubbed…
15 March 2017
China 1, Rome 0 (so far!) Ladies and gentlemen, fans of the theatre and its amazing spectacles, roll up, roll up and witness the battle of the imperialist…
10 March 2017
Stress and the demands of modern living, coupled with the issues of celebritydom, may seem like terribly modern concerns, but here, in The Bear Pit Theatre…
17 February 2017
‘Magic and wonder lights up the dark’ Reviewed on 14th February BASED on legendary Italian director Federico Fellini’s 1957 Oscar-winning film, La Strada,…
20 January 2017
Pomegranate Trio, Stratford Chamber Music Society at Shakespeare Institute, Stratford, Sunday, 15th January CHAMBER musicians have come up with all manner…
19 January 2017
This Evil Thing, Michael Mears at the Kempe Studio, 15th January When the subject of the heroes of the First World War comes up, your thoughts naturally…
16 January 2017
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON’S young theatre company, Rogues and Vagabonds, present the musical The Secret Garden at the Bear Pit Theatre this week. This enchanting…
13 January 2017
JUST when you think the festive cheer has ended until next December, along comes a rather special occasion to once again become merry, mirthful and multicultural… Members…
22 December 2016
AS an arts reviewer the hazards of the job at this time of year is festive entertainment fatigue — FEF for short. It comes from hearing Away In a Manger…
20 December 2016
Steve Sutherland reviews Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at The Dream Factory, Warwick, which runs until Saturday, 31st December “Everyone’s mad here……
08 December 2016
THERE’S something hugely refreshing about The Seven Acts of Mercy by Anders Lustgarten. On the one hand its foul-mouthed kitchen sink realism would hardly…
02 December 2016
Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre pantomime has long been a highlight in the Midlands’ Christmas theatre calendar. And 2017 is certainly no exception. Our hapless…
18 November 2016
Four hundred years on from Shakespeare’s death, director Greg Doran has tapped into the dramatist’s spirit of technical creativity and adventure to create…
15 November 2016
It's a well-known story – unemployed Sheffield steel workers, thrown on the scrapheap by the collapse of their industry, form a sub-Chippendales troupe…
12 November 2016
Kaylee Holt reviews The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by the ArtsHouse Drama Club at Stratford ArtsHouse, Saturday, 5th November THE ArtsHouse was…
19 October 2016
TWO , the hilarious and heartwarming play by Jim Cartwright tells the story of a bickering husband and wife who run a pub. The married couple and the…
