Reviews

BOYS FROM THE BLACKSTUFF

- 18 June 2025

It’s the early 1980s and the country is in crisis. Unemployment is strangling society, men,...

ANNA KARENINA

- 14 June 2025

Expectations riding high, the lights fell in the main house at Chichester Festival Theatre for...

OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR

- 12 June 2025

Up to your waist in water, Up to your eyes in slush – Using the...

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

- 6 June 2025

Adapted from Paula Hawkins’ best selling novel – an international phenomenon, over twenty million copies,...

Fringe – Beth Levin (New York) – Piano Recital

- 30 May 2025

It was so wise to start with the Mozart, Beth Levin presenting her credentials –...

OLLY MURS

- 28 May 2025

Olly Murs lit up the Brighton Centre with an electrifying performance that had fans dancing...

ELECTRA

- 28 May 2025

There’s little light in Greek tragedy and  Electra is certainly very dark. But in this...

SUSAN EVANS: AMUSE-BOUCHE

- 26 May 2025

I’ve done a fair amount of prattling on of late about festivals and fringe festivals,...

Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead

- 24 May 2025

Fringe festivals are extraordinary events in the variety of entertainments on offer, from the silly,...

Brighton Festival – RPO & BFC, Francesca Dego (violin), Ludovic Morlot (conductor)

- 23 May 2025

This was a very serious programme with a very important message that was best delivered...

HUMANS 2.0

- 21 May 2025

In the flurry of circus arts based shows that have filled the entertainment world in...

Brighton Festival – Quatuor Van Kuijk

- 21 May 2025

Quatuor Van Kuijk are a jolly lot. They entered laughing (somebody backstage had started to...