Reviews

REVIEW: A Monster Calls at The Bear Pit Theatre is another winner from Stratford Youth Theatre

REVIEW: A stylish setting, best views in Stratford-upon-Avon and tasty modern cuisine earn the RSC Rooftop Restaurant a standing ovation

REVIEW: Medea at The Loft, Leamington

REVIEW: Fantastically realised Alice Through The Looking Glass is at the Dream Factory, Playbox Theatre, Warwick, until 30th December

Twelfth Night is a rare spectacle where the play, production, casting, performances, staging, lighting, costuming and music are all in perfect harmony

REVIEW: The Railway Children at the Bear Pit, Stratford, is full of warmth and magic as great team pull together

A cast of 30 bring The Railway Children to life at the Bear Pit Theatre until 15th December

Four stars - look out for the dinner scene, a fabulous slo-mo slaughter where the cutlery is magically weaponised.

Real magic is going on in the RSC’s costume props, footwear and armoury department as festive show The Red Shoes goes on stage.

Tim Dale reviews Footloose, which is at Stratford Playhouse.

The Stratford Literary Festival’s Autumn Weekend featured stellar guests, including Rev Richard Coles who hinted at his I’m A Celebrity appearance…

REVIEW: The Phantom of the Opera, The Attic Theatre, until 3 November

REVIEW: Concepts rob tension from Othello at the RSC, two stars **

REVIEW: The Addams Family, The Dream Factory, Playbox Theatre, Warwick

Treasure Island is on at The Attic Theatre, Stratford until Monday.

Peter Buckroyd was at the premiere of Danny Masewicz’s play about the experiences and fate of Polish people displaced between 1935 and 1942.

REVIEW: Kyoto, Swan Theatre, Stratford, until 13th July, FOUR STARS ****

5 STARS, REVIEW: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, until 18th May

REVIEW: The Importance of Being Earnest, Bear Pit Theatre, 23rd March

REVIEW: Stratford Youth Theatre’s production of The Spiderwick Chronicles is full of spirt