- 6 January 2023
A celebration not to be missed – unless, like me, you have a chest cough...
- 4 January 2023
One has to ask whether Richard O’Brien, when first thinking of writing a pastiche 1950s...
- 26 December 2022
In a city deprived of panto for a variety of reasons in the last few...
- 19 December 2022
In recent years Christmas entertainment has started to embrace circus, modern circus that is, no...
- 18 December 2022
What a joy to be treated to an evening simply packed with traditional festive merriment,...
Reviews
Beauty and the Beast – Talking Scarlet
- 7 December 2016
This is my sort of pantomime. Young and old will find the clever script funny,...
The Best of British Film Scores – Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Balcombe (conductor)
- 5 December 2016
Film music is often disparaged for being trivial, light, cheap. Oh no! This was a...
Swan Lake – Russian State Ballet & Opera Theatre of Astrakhan
- 4 December 2016
Tchaikovsky’s glorious tunes, ever yearning or bright with brass and then even sadder with the...