Reviews

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...

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...