Reviews

THERE’S always a risk for opera and theatre directors who ‘update’ famous works that were written centuries ago with the aim of making them more accessible,…

Steve Sutherland reviews Crooked Dances, The Other Place, Until 13th July When the kids were small, we Sutherlands made the classic mistake of holidaying…

Karl Walker reviews Behind The Settee, Susie's Bar @ The Other Place, 4th July The welcoming environs of Susie's Bar played host to Rugby based alt-pop…

Venice Preserved, The Swan Theatre, until 7th September So the President of the United States is in town, hobnobbing with the Establishment. Trump’s not…

Steve Sutherland reviews this year's Gifford's Circus show Xanadu, which is touring throught the summer. Book tickets here We’re talking about time, and…

Peter Buckroyd reviews Duet for One, Aspect Theatre Company at The Attic Theatre, 18th May I saw the premiere production of this wonderful play twice…

Clive Peacock reviews Leamington Music Festival, Takacs Quartet, Royal Pump Room, 9th and 10th May What a happy coincidence! What chance the long-awaited…

Peter Buckroyd reviews Patrick Gale, Take Nothing With You, United Reformed Church, 2nd May In a wonderfully refreshing conversation with Meg Sanders,…

Peter Buckroyd reviews Rosemary Shrager, Cookery and Other Ingredients, Stratford Play House, 29th April What you see is what you get and it’s the same…

Peter Buckroyd reviews Orchestra of the Swan, Peter Donohoe plays Mozart No. 25, Stratford Arts House, 30th April 2019 Jason Lai is one of the best conductors…

Peter Buckroyd reviews Lucy Parham and Juliet Stephenson, I Clara, Stratford Play House, 29th April After a very successful career as solo concert pianist…

Peter Buckroyd reviews John Suchet, Tchaikovsky, Stratford Play House, 30th April Tchaikovsky This was a fascinating and elegantly delivered talk by John…

Gill Sutherland reviews The Provoked Wife, which runs at The Swan Theatre until 7th September Caroline Quentin as Lady Fancyfull Did you see the guests…

Clive Peacock reviews the Leamington Music Festival, Royal Pump Room, which continues until 10th May With this landmark 30th Leamington Music Festival…

Keeping Our End Up, The Loft, Leamington Spa, 3rd to 13th April LIKE all great sporting stories Keeping Our End Up, a new play by local writer and actor…

Who was the greatest storyteller that ever lived? Shakespeare would be the obvious ready response. But after seeing Kunene and the King I’m happy to believe…

Steve Sutherland reviews The Taming of the Shrew, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, until 31st August “Tis the mind that makes the body rich…” Uh, oh… Here…

Georgina Fuller reviews The Scummy Mummies at The Theatre Chipping Norton, 29th March Wine, crude jokes, odes to Captain Birdseye, confessions, childbirth…

Lucy on high with diamonds Steve Sutherland reviews As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, until 31st August Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Vanessa Redgrave,…

The unbelievable truth All is True, the new Shakespeare film, was released on 8 th February All is True is, in equal measure, both brilliant and troubling. Here…