REVIEWS

Blessings – Riverside Studios

The Deacons are a respectable middle-class Catholic family living in an English town, doing their best to raise a family…

2 months ago

The Bodyguard – Winter Gardens, Blackpool

An enjoyable evening at Winter Gardens, Blackpool. A very talented cast led by Sidonie Smith (Chicago, Sister Act) as the…

2 months ago

A Waltz on the Edge: RLPO’s Dance Through Darkness and Disquiet – Philharmonic Hall Liverpool

On a wet and blustery autumnal evening, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Alpesh Chauhan, delivered a…

2 months ago

Britannia Waves The Rules – Hope Street Theatre

Gareth Farr’s 2011 Bruntwood Prize winning play is a brutal and gritty account of a young man’s journey from the…

3 months ago

The Importance of Being Earnest – Noel Coward Theatre

When you see a cast list inclusive of Stephen Fry and the players of The Importance of Being Earnest, you…

3 months ago

Tosca – Royal Ballet and Opera

Director Oliver Mears triumphs with this modern-day interpretation of Puccini’s full-blooded three-act drama of politics and power with its many…

3 months ago

Bacchae – National Theatre

Nima Taleghani’s Bacchae is an explicitly pro-women reading of the Euripedes’ tragedy, if one that feels slightly dated (and not…

3 months ago

Death on the Nile – The Lowry

Ken Ludwig’s stage adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile, directed by Lucy Bailey at The Lowry, is a…

3 months ago

Top Hat – Edinburgh Playhouse

Irving Berlin’s Top Hat taps into the Edinburgh Playhouse this week with more sparkle than a sequinned gin palace, and, in a…

3 months ago

Shake It Up Baby – Epstein Theatre

Have you ever wondered how The Beatles became THE BEATLES? If so, get yourself down to the Epstein Theatre for…

3 months ago