Reviews

BEAUTIFUL: CAROLE KING THE MUSICAL

- 30 March 2022

My face ached from smiling from the opening moments to the triumphant finale. Of course...

Joanna MacGregor

BPO – Season Finale – Joanna MacGregor (piano), Sian Edwards (conductor)

- 28 March 2022

What a climax! The BPO season ended as it began with surprises, vigour and joyous...

ANDREW KAY REVIEWS SHELTER HALL

- 24 March 2022

It’s some time since the shelter hall on Brighton seafront was renovated and quite a...

AN HOUR AND A HALF LATE

- 22 March 2022

One has to question why two stars of this calibre would be drawn to this...

UNSANCTIONED & MEASURE 2 MEASURE

- 21 March 2022

In a post pandemic world where the safe option for theatre makers is to stage...

DARK SUBLIME

- 17 March 2022

Brighton Little Theatre has a great reputation for producing some very fine productions that have...

THE DA VINCI CODE

- 16 March 2022

There’s an old saying that familiarity breeds contempt… but not in this case. This super...

Madama Butterfly: Ellen Kent and The Ukrainian National Municipal Opera Kyiv

- 10 March 2022

What an extraordinary evening. Madama Butterfly is always an emotive work, the story of a...

BPO – Silent Classics with Neil Brand (presenter & composer), David Gray (piano), Joanna MacGregor (conductor)

- 7 March 2022

This was very different from the usual Sunday afternoon concert. It started with a chat...

PAY THE PIPER

- 26 February 2022

Glyndebourne is without doubt one of the world’s greatest opera houses, internationally acclaimed not only...

Footloose

- 22 February 2022

A standing ovation, the audience on its feet, clapping and singing along. At the final...

BPO – The European Connection – Junyan Chen (piano), Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

- 14 February 2022

This programme was full of the promise of Spring. Mendelssohn, the perfect feel-good composer, countered...