Reviews

SLEEPING BEAUTY

- 20 December 2024

How I love a proper pantomime, and over recent years how I have come to...

101 DALMATIANS

- 18 December 2024

Dodie Smith’s children’s book The Hundred and One Dalmatians was published in 1956, the year...

GLYNDEBOURNE: CHRISTMAS CONCERT 2024

- 16 December 2024

In my season of choral excursions the festival fare delivered by the Glyndebourne Chorus and...

Rick Astley – Swinging Xmas 2024

- 15 December 2024

Rick Astley appeared looking the part in an immaculate black tuxedo. As others before him, ...

THE RAINBOW CHORUS: BIG FESTIVE RAINBOW BELLTER

- 15 December 2024

Tis the season to be choral, tra la la la la… and throughout December you...

RESOUND & REBELLES: TWISTMAS

- 14 December 2024

For many years now Resound have proved to be a very accomplished amateur choir, no...

SLAVA’S SNOW SHOW

- 13 December 2024

In over thirty years of reviewing theatre nothing has come close to the pure winter...

THE HUMAN LEAGUE

- 11 December 2024

Firstly an apology to T’Pau who I arrived too late to enjoy, dinner took far...

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Richard Durrant: Songs of the Solstice

- 11 December 2024

This delightful seasonal concert was performed four times by Richard Durrant (guitars, fife) with Howard...

A CHORAL CELEBRATION GLYNDEBOURNE

- 10 December 2024

In recent years the jewel in the crown of the Sussex Downs, internationally respected Glyndebourne...

BRIGHTON GAY MEN’S CHORUS: THE ROCKY HOLLY TINSEL SHOW

- 8 December 2024

You can always guarantee that the BGMC will deliver a fun packed evening of song...

Dame Evelyn Glennie

BPO – Evelyn Glennie and Scheherazade – Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

- 3 December 2024

I’m so glad I did my homework and read Joanna MacGregor’s detailed programme notes before...