Reviews

BPO – Centenary Gala: Turangalîla Symphony – Joseph Havlat (piano), Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot), Joanna MacGregor (conductor)

- 15 April 2025

We all knew it would be glorious – and of course it was! Brighton’s much-loved...

MICHAEL BALL & ALFIE BOE

- 15 April 2025

A quick glance at what we all knew as the “pop” charts over the last...

THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE

- 10 April 2025

Martin McDonagh’s rural drama is a texturally rich story steeped in Irish theatrical tradition and...

THE SHARK IS BROKEN

- 8 April 2025

If like me you can remember heading to the local cinema, back then no doubt...

COMPANY

- 3 April 2025

Sondheim’s early career as a lyricist, West Side Story and Gypsy, then a leap to...

CALAMITY JANE

- 2 April 2025

Calamity Jane started life, not on stage but in a 1953 Doris Day movie, a...

JENNY ECLAIR: JOKES, JOKES, JOKES – LIVE!

- 1 April 2025

Jenny Eclair, alternative comedy queen, successful novelist, radio game show regular and hugely successful podcaster...

KINKY BOOTS

- 26 March 2025

The arrival of the musical Kinky Boots seems way overdue, even more so than perhaps...

LA BOHEME

- 22 March 2025

Puccini’s masterpiece is the opera that I have seen more times than any other, and...

BANGERS

- 21 March 2025

Being thrown somewhat out of my comfort zone or range of experience can be unnerving....

FLUTTER-BYE

- 17 March 2025

Steve Barrey’s first foray into writing, from a background of high finance, entrepreneurship, music and...

IN REALNESS

- 14 March 2025

In reality Dam van Huynh in collaboration with Tommaso Petrolo create a disquieting work of...