Reviews

Review: RSC’s The Red Shoes: Fabulous in places, timid in others

Four stars - look out for the dinner scene, a fabulous slo-mo slaughter where the cutlery is magically weaponised.

Dogs’ tails, furry wings, Captain Hook's hook and now red shoes

Real magic is going on in the RSC’s costume props, footwear and armoury department as festive show The Red Shoes goes on stage.

Grab your dancing shoes and cut loose at Stratford Musical Theatre’s new production

Tim Dale reviews Footloose, which is at Stratford Playhouse.

Our learned friends

The Stratford Literary Festival’s Autumn Weekend featured stellar guests, including Rev Richard Coles who hinted at his I’m A Celebrity appearance…

Fabulous Phantom

REVIEW: The Phantom of the Opera, The Attic Theatre, until 3 November

RSC Othello review: Style over substance

REVIEW: Concepts rob tension from Othello at the RSC, two stars **

Masterfully monstrous

REVIEW: The Addams Family, The Dream Factory, Playbox Theatre, Warwick

Treasure Island is comedy gold

Treasure Island is on at The Attic Theatre, Stratford until Monday.

Polish history, beautifully done - Review: Do Not Forget Me at Stratford’s Bear Pit Theatre

Peter Buckroyd was at the premiere of Danny Masewicz’s play about the experiences and fate of Polish people displaced between 1935 and 1942.

Summit worthy this way comes

REVIEW: Kyoto, Swan Theatre, Stratford, until 13th July, FOUR STARS ****

The thrill of the chaste

5 STARS, REVIEW: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, until 18th May

A telling comedy

REVIEW: The Importance of Being Earnest, Bear Pit Theatre, 23rd March

Magical show that is away with the fairies

REVIEW: Stratford Youth Theatre’s production of The Spiderwick Chronicles is full of spirt

Cheers, Big Ears!

REVIEW: **** Steve Sutherland finds a dreamy take on modern manners in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the RSC, until 30th March

Picture special – step into the light at Warwickshire venue’s spectacular show

Review and pictures of Spectacle of Light at Compton Verney.

Review: Alcester students show they’re up there with the best

Alcester Grammar School students put on a production of Woyzeck By Georg Buchner.

‘Now I’m bigger than Henry V!’

Forty years ago today – on 23rd October 1983 – Echo & The Bunnymen stole the show at the RSC. Music journalist Steve Sutherland looks back.

A break from the Macnorm

**** REVIEW: Seve Sutherland finds strangeness aplenty in the RSC’s beguiling production of Macbeth

Review: L'Orfeo – classy stuff and precisely what’s expected from Longborough

Twelve singers of undeniable class and La Serenissima orchestra perform L’Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi.

Red Sky delight

REVIEW: Red Sky at Sunrise is a stunning combination of Laurie Lee’s words with music performed by Orchestra of the Swan at the RSC

Weightlifter, professional twit and imaginary ice cream friend...

INTERVIEW: Comedian, actor and writer Jessica Fostekew is one of the stellar stand ups taking the stage tonight for Live at the RSC

Reviews

Review: RSC’s The Red Shoes: Fabulous in places, timid in others

Dogs’ tails, furry wings, Captain Hook's hook and now red shoes

Dogs’ tails, furry wings, Captain Hook's hook and now red shoes

Grab your dancing shoes and cut loose at Stratford Musical Theatre’s new production

Grab your dancing shoes and cut loose at Stratford Musical Theatre’s new production

Our learned friends

Our learned friends

Fabulous Phantom

Fabulous Phantom

RSC Othello review: Style over substance

RSC Othello review: Style over substance

Masterfully monstrous