Abigail Stevens
Image Description: red and white promotional picture of Sweeney Todd holding his trusty razor. CW – Graphic violence, rape, cannibalism...
Heather McDade
Travesties, by Tom Stoppard, is largely set in Zurich in the middle of the First World War. The turbulence...
Yoo Chun
This production of Tennessee William’s ‘Summer & Smoke’, the first in the UK in ten years, is tastefully executed and...
William Aslet
✮✮✮✮✮ You would be hard pressed to find a comedy blacker than Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman. It is a...
William Forrest
The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Bertolt Brecht’s brutal satire, morality play and modernist fairy-tale is currently undergoing treatment by ‘Screw the...
Surprises abound in Semi-Monde, a delightfully dishonest comedy by Noel Coward on at The Playhouse this term. Concerned with the...
Emily Holman
One theatre group, two nights, six plays. Almost Random Theatre (ART) is barely twenty months old and has begun 2014...
Jack Myers
✮✮✮✮ “Shepherd’s pie peppered with actual shepherd on top.” Probably the best line in any musical ever. It actually sums...
Sophie Baggott
✮✮✮✮✮ I confess, I took my seat (classy Circle D27, cheers OxStu) in the Playhouse without having so much as...
Jack Myers
Strolling up Jowett’s Walk, bound for a preview of the upcoming Playhouse take on The Producers, I couldn’t help but...
Toni Ledda
Image Description: The name ‘Persephone’ on a pink background with illustrations of roses, a pomegranate and a skeletal hand. CW...
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Mansfield College has announced in a press release that Dame Maggie Smith, English actress, is to be conferred with an...
William Shaw
There are two things that any British production of Singin’ in the Rain needs to do in order to succeed....
Eleanor Trend
Cheek by Jowl know how to put on a show. The company’s exhilarating production of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore...
Charanpreet Khaira
✮✮✮✮ Noel Coward’s Semi-Monde running at the Oxford Playhouse this week, is a delightful romp through the opulence and extravagance...
✮✮✮ Running at just under 90 minutes, you’d expect that Filter’s production of Twelfth Night would kill off some Shakespeare...
Rebecca Henderson
✮✮✮✮ With the prizes and prestige of the original show combined with gritty themes of human existence and value, it...
Liliane Slater
✮✮✮✮ I come from California, and the first thing that comes to mind when faced with the prospect of an American...
Costanza Bertoni
✮✮✮✮✮ Arcadia by Tom Stoppard: ring any bells? Yeah, I imagined so. And not only because it’s one of the greatest...
