Reviews

DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY

- 3 September 2025

Austen to PD James, novel to novel to TV to stage… can it survive? It’s...

WONDERFULLY ENJOYABLE END OF THE PIER SHOW!

- 18 August 2025

Funny, energetic and life-affirming, the End of The Pier show at Brighton Palace Pier is...

LES MISERABLES: LET THE PEOPLE SING

- 14 August 2025

Forty years on and it is still so hard to understand why, on its opening,...

KÁŤA KABANOVÁ

- 8 August 2025

The slow reveal from darkness of the stark white setting against the haunting strains of...

THE MIDNIGHT BELL

- 31 July 2025

Having over the years seen many of Matthew Bourne’s works, and loved them all, I...

BRIGHTON GAY MEN’S CHORUS: EURO PARTY

- 27 July 2025

2025 sees the 20th anniversary of the BGMC, a milestone event for one on the...

NEW VENTURE THEATRE: FIVE SHORT PLAYS

- 26 July 2025

How lucky are we to have an asset like New Venture Theatre in our city?...

TOP HAT

- 25 July 2025

This year’s musical revival from Chichester Festival Theatre is Irving Berlin’s Top Hat. Built around...

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

- 23 July 2025

Tudor England, an age of British history that is perhaps the most familiar, the one...

FALSTAFF

- 21 July 2025

In a week of two Shakespeare comedies for me, Glyndebourne’s revival of their wittily shifted...

ACTUALLY GAY MEN’S CHORUS: FABULOUS

- 20 July 2025

As show titles go this could not have been better named. At Twenty years old...

Walk like an Italian with Stefania Licari

- 19 July 2025

I Can Make You Italian in 55 Minutes by award winning comedian and rising star,...