Entertainment·11th June 2022Review: Tick, Tick…Boom! Abigail Stevens Spoilers ahead! It is unlikely that anyone would have ever heard of Tick, Tick…Boom! if it weren’t for the later... Read More
Entertainment·15th February 2022“They All Deserve To Die”: Sweeney Todd Review Abigail Stevens Image Description: red and white promotional picture of Sweeney Todd holding his trusty razor. CW – Graphic violence, rape, cannibalism... Read More
Entertainment·11th November 2018Review: The Band thrills in transporting us back to the ’90s Emma Rumford Image Credit: Matt Crockett. Description: the central cast of The Band. Jukebox musicals, the idea of incorporating the music of... Read More
Entertainment·18th May 2018Lady Gaga meets Brecht at the Old Fire Station Robyn Allen A Berlin Kabaret advertises itself as ‘Lady Gaga meets Brecht’ and a ‘Response to the Refugee Crisis’. It is underselling... Read More
Entertainment·24th January 2018Review: Witch at the Jacqueline du Pré Miriam Tomusk The silence beneath the noise is the guiding undercurrent of Witch, an original production created by the students of the... Read More
Entertainment·23rd May 2017Review: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 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... Read More
Entertainment·4th May 2017An Array of Delights in this Little Shop of Horrors Little Shop of Horrors is a weird, wacky and wonderful musical. A cult classic I had failed to encounter before... Read More
Entertainment·24th February 2017Made in Dagenham: Affecting, Thoughtful and Triumphant Betty Yang On the 28th of June 1968, a group of female machinists marched on Whitehall, picketing for change, campaigning for gender... Read More
Entertainment·16th February 2017Anna Karenina is Given a New Lease of Life in the O’Reilly Yolanda Shamash There have been a hell of a lot of plays about Russia this term. We had Collaborators, all about Stalin,... Read More
Entertainment·2nd February 2017Prostitutes and Petunias on London Road: A Review Prostitution, petunias, serial killers and community. These issues might seem to be an unconventional combination and yet they all come... Read More
Culture·13th May 2022Review: Little Shop of Horrors 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... Read More
Culture·10th May 2019Madagascar the Movie: We do not like to move it move it 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... Read More
Entertainment·21st May 2018Hamilton: The musical everyone is talking about Emma Rumford Hamilton, a musical so loved it kept its namesake on the 10 dollar bill, is as much a success of... Read More
Entertainment·17th May 2018Review: Thoroughly Modern Millie Lou Lou Curry Thoroughly Modern Millie is as thoroughly delightful as ever. Now on tour, and having just graced Oxford’s New Theatre with... Read More
Entertainment·2nd June 2017Merlot and Royal: A Great Cast and Catchy Tunes Slightly Hampered by New Writing Katie Stanton Merlot & Royal, an original musical by Imogen Mechie, opened at the Tingewick Hall with great potential, but it failed to... Read More
Entertainment·22nd May 2017Merlot and Royal: Feelings of Nostalgia Combined with Pure Excitement Walking away from St Catherine’s on Saturday morning I couldn’t stop myself humming ‘Merlot and Royal’; it was at this... Read More
Entertainment·1st May 2017‘Little Shop of Horrors’: A Preview Charles Pidgeon As I watched the cast of Little Shop of Horrors perform at a tech rehearsal, I was nostalgic for a... Read More
Entertainment·19th February 2017Made in Dagenham Preview: Up-beat Numbers, Infectious Laughs, and Political Activism Megan Husain On Saturday I went along to the Simpkins Lee Theatre to see a preview of Made in Dagenham which is... Read More
Entertainment·10th February 2017Anna Karenina is fearless, spirited and surprising: A Preview Betty Yang Staging Anna Karenina is a tricky business. For a start, you have to chisel down one thousand pages and repackage... Read More