Theatre reviews for you, by you. If you would like to review for us,
please contact us including a short review of what you have seen recently.

Writer: Euripides Adaptor: Tom Paulin Director: Barrie Rutter Reviewer: Mary Tapper The Public Reviews Rating: When I go to the theatre I am often moved by the unexpected. Some event in a play resonates with an experience in my own life- growing old, children leaving home, disappointment, hope, or tragedy- and I am surprised by the depths of [...]

Writer/Director: Peter Duncan Reviewer: Talisker Macleod This year’s panto offering from the Oxford Playhouse is Jack and the Beanstalk, written and directed by Peter Duncan. It is a visually impressive production, with plenty of songs and audience banter, and a good bit of dancing thrown in. The set and costumes are absolutely fabulous, particularly Dame [...]

Based on the novel by John Buchan Adaptor/Director: Maria Aitken Reviewer: Helen Patrick The Liverpool Playhouse over the past few years has decided to not run a traditional Christmas production due to their sister theatre the Everyman showing their yearly Rock’n’Roll Panto. Instead they have opted to show a more adult orientated production, last year [...]

Writer/Performer: Roger McGough Reviewers: T & L Andrewes Faced with writing a review of a poet reading his own work one might wonder whether to focus on performing capacity or literary merit. With actors, the furthering of the literary value depends on the quality of the performance. With a poet maybe we are looking for [...]

Writer: Hanif Kureishi Director: Jatinder Verma Reviewer: Joshua Rey What was the big historical event of twenty years ago? Yeah, yeah, some wall or other – but that was about the past. What was the moment that defined the future we now live in? Arguably, it was March 1989, when the Ayatollah Khomeini emitted a [...]

Writer: Simon Schama Adaptor: Caryl Phillips Director: Rupert Goold Reviewer: John Roberts One has to sit back and admire how well Rupert Goold is doing, but the question is, is he just this season’s hot property or is he here for the long haul? My answer would be if he isn’t either running the national [...]