- 13 October 2025
“Perfection!” was the word most heard during the interval – and this needs some context....
- 12 October 2025
Ayres Extemporae are very accomplished and they have unearthed a fabulous treasure trove of early...
I’m often asked what would be the best introduction to opera and without fail I...
- 11 October 2025
Quality always tells and Ensemble Molière is pure quality. BREMF stalwarts, they opened this year’s...
- 7 October 2025
Seeing a play, a ghost story, for a second time has its pitfalls. Do you...
- 4 October 2025
Licensing conditions are in place that prohibit me from reviewing Simon Stephens’ Sea Wall. First...
- 2 October 2025
Funny, heartfelt and gloriously nostalgic, Who Do They Think They Are? is a life-affirming celebration...
- 1 October 2025
Most of us grow up with comics, The Beano, The Dandy, The Eagle for my...
- 29 September 2025
This concert season began so quietly with the gently lulling opening of Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Piano...
This extraordinary work, Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play Wedekind’s first major play Frühlings Erwachen, must have...
- 27 September 2025
Ooh la la! Take a stage, probably less than four metres square in size, and...
- 26 September 2025
Golding’s novel sits so firmly in my childhood memory, a curriculum classic that at the...
