

Another Musical, Another Success
Gloucester may have opened Richard III with the famous proclamation 'now is the winter of our discontent', but this winter, the...


All My Praise For All My Sons
'Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets'. It's safe to say that I have a rather sizable soft spot for the...


They Will Rock You
The posters talk a big game. You'll see the words 'guaranteed to blow your mind' plastered across buses and billboards, and that's one...


Wonderful Town Is, Well, Wonderful
Everyone knows Bernstein for the much loved 'West Side Story' (and for good reason), but Saturday night's performance of his (also...


STC's Hay Fever Is Blissfully Barmy
A family of eccentrics living life à la bohème and an unsuspecting gaggle of guests all mixed together in a country estate, what could go...


Squabbalogic's Grease Is The Original Word
Grease is the word - but this production isn't quite the word you've come to know. After the iconic film starring the smooth-talking John...


Reveling In Rossini
Well, I am besotted with the Barber. The Barber of Seville, that is! Never before have I seen a wilier Mr Fix-it than in the Opera...


Romeo, Romeo, Where Art Thou Ardour?
This play needs no introduction. Romeo and Juliet is THE Shakespeare. So if one is going to do it, one must do it right - but never fear!...


The Importance of Being Bracknell
Anyone who truly knows me will tell you: I'm a HUGE David Suchet fan. I mean astronomically so. A somewhat niche hobby that I share with...


Arcadia: Masterpiece Or Philosophical Caprice?
I see it written everywhere: 'masterpiece', 'audience favourite', 'one of the 20th century's greatest plays', but is Tom Stoppard's...