REVIEWS

Michael Rosen: Getting Through It – The Old Vic

Getting Through It is a poignant, inspiring, heartbreaking and heartwarming storytelling show by acclaimed children’s author Michael Rosen (We’re Going…

2 months ago

The Soon Life – Southwark Playhouse Borough

The Soon Life opens with precise staging, a brightly lit room with a sofa, table and garniture you would expect…

2 months ago

La Sonnambula – The Metropolitan Opera, New York

Opera tenor Rolando Villazón’s directorial debut at The Met hits the high notes with Bellini’s infrequently staged opera about a…

2 months ago

Black Is the Colour of My Voice – Crucible Theatre

‘Black is the Colour of My Voice’ takes on the phenomenon of gospel, jazz and blues icon Nina Simone, and…

2 months ago

Gwenda’s Garage The Musical – Sheffield Playhouse

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, a Lesbian run garage named after the 1930’s racing driver Gwenda Stewart, three female mechanics and an…

2 months ago

Black Power Desk – The Lowry

Set with the backdrop of the Black British civil rights movement in the 1970s, Urielle Klein-Mekongo’s original musical Black Power…

2 months ago

Cirque Éloize: iD Reloaded – Hull New Theatre

If I had a tenner for every time I said “oh my God!” while watching the unbelievably talented Cirque Éloize…

2 months ago

Fanny – King’s Head Theatre

Fanny is a hilarious and clever play that blends fact and fiction to retell the story of Fanny Mendelssohn. Set…

2 months ago

Moulin Rouge – Birmingham Hippodrome

It Does What It Says On The Can-Can! Baz Luhrmann’s deft capacity to envision new worlds in new ways through…

2 months ago

The Perfect Murder – Rainhill Village Hall

Director Rosetta Parker is guilty as charged for delivering the perfect murder drama with this production of Hugh Janes’ adaptation…

2 months ago