The Pirates of Penzance at the ENO
This was bound to happen. Mike Leigh’s original ENO production of The Pirates of Penzance…
Browsing: The Culturist
Art at the Old Vic
When you read the premise of Yasmina Reza’s play Art, it feels as though this…
The Glass Menagerie
Landing in the West End via Broadway and a spell at the Edinburgh Festival, The…
Written on Skin at the ROH
When George Benjamin’s Written on Skin debuted at Aix en Provence five years ago it…
Pride and Prejudice
It was a delight to catch the Regent’s Park Theatre touring production of Pride and…
Giselle
Although Alina Cojocaru and Isaac Hernandez had wowed for the official press night two days…
The Top 10 Films of 2016
2016 was a mixed bag at the cinema, with some huge disappointments (let’s not talk…
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
As quickly as they were gone, Christmas commercial tentpoles Harry Potter and Rings/Hobbit were replaced,…
The Red Shoes
The 1948 film The Red Shoes is an icon. It won two Oscars and has…
La La Land
It would be fair to say I was a fan of Damien Chazelle’s last film. Whiplash…
Aladdin at the Lyric Theatre
Brexit, Trump, yet more austerity – three reasons to be not so cheerful as we…
This House
After much-acclaimed runs in both the National Theatre and Chichester, James Graham’s play, This House,…