Abigail Stevens
Spoilers ahead! It is unlikely that anyone would have ever heard of Tick, Tick…Boom! if it weren’t for the later...
Abigail Stevens
Image Description: red and white promotional picture of Sweeney Todd holding his trusty razor. CW – Graphic violence, rape, cannibalism...
Emma Rumford
Image Credit: Matt Crockett. Description: the central cast of The Band. Jukebox musicals, the idea of incorporating the music of...
Robyn Allen
A Berlin Kabaret advertises itself as ‘Lady Gaga meets Brecht’ and a ‘Response to the Refugee Crisis’. It is underselling...
Miriam Tomusk
The silence beneath the noise is the guiding undercurrent of Witch, an original production created by the students of the...
Natalie Tsay
At first glance, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend looks like just another standard rom-com. A successful, Harvard-and-Yale-educated woman named Rebecca runs into Josh...
Little Shop of Horrors is a weird, wacky and wonderful musical. A cult classic I had failed to encounter before...
Betty Yang
On the 28th of June 1968, a group of female machinists marched on Whitehall, picketing for change, campaigning for gender...
Yolanda Shamash
There have been a hell of a lot of plays about Russia this term. We had Collaborators, all about Stalin,...
Prostitution, petunias, serial killers and community. These issues might seem to be an unconventional combination and yet they all come...
Joe Wald
The Eglesfield Music Society’s rendition of Ashman and Menken’s Little Shop of Horrors is wall-to-wall delights. A heartwarming thrill ride...
Miranda K Gleaves
A half-empty theatre rarely bodes well. The curtain rose as my heart sank, and this underwhelming, under-rehearsed, and unambitious production...
Emma Rumford
Hamilton, a musical so loved it kept its namesake on the 10 dollar bill, is as much a success of...
Lou Lou Curry
Thoroughly Modern Millie is as thoroughly delightful as ever. Now on tour, and having just graced Oxford’s New Theatre with...
Katie Stanton
Merlot & Royal, an original musical by Imogen Mechie, opened at the Tingewick Hall with great potential, but it failed to...
Walking away from St Catherine’s on Saturday morning I couldn’t stop myself humming ‘Merlot and Royal’; it was at this...
Charles Pidgeon
As I watched the cast of Little Shop of Horrors perform at a tech rehearsal, I was nostalgic for a...
Megan Husain
On Saturday I went along to the Simpkins Lee Theatre to see a preview of Made in Dagenham which is...
Betty Yang
Staging Anna Karenina is a tricky business. For a start, you have to chisel down one thousand pages and repackage...
