Reviews

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...

Brighton Festival – Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)

- 20 May 2025

Half the vast space of the Corn Exchange miraculously became a Victorian parlour – How?...

ZOE LYONS: WEREWOLF

- 19 May 2025

Zoe Lyons’ opening act is a comedian from Crawley, a fact that he weaves into...

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

- 18 May 2025

I remember crying whilst reading Mark Haddon’s beautiful book when it was first published, not...

Brighton Festival –  London Symphony Orchestra, Leila Josefowicz (violin), Susanna Mälkki (conductor)

- 17 May 2025

What a risky programme! Not so long ago it would have scared away the crowds...

SONGS OF THE BULBUL

- 17 May 2025

The evening opened with a narration, the story of the bulbul, or nightingale as we...

GARY BARLOW: SONGBOOK TOUR 2025

- 16 May 2025

Let’s start at the very beginning. In my thirty odd years of reviewing live entertainment...

NORTH BY NORTHWEST

- 15 May 2025

Over the years I have enjoyed so much of director and theatre maker Emma Rice’s...

Brighton Festival – Jamie Cochrane (piano)

- 14 May 2025

No fuss, just a ripple of applause, a moment of calm, then fortissimo G octaves....

Brighton Festival – Brighton & East Sussex Youth Orchestra

- 13 May 2025

It’s so lovely when talented youth teaches old ears wonderful new tunes. That’s exactly what...

HAMLET

- 11 May 2025

I am audience. Or at least until last night that would be how I categorise...