Review: Ballet Shoes
A winter paean to wonder and possibility, Kendall Feaver’s and Katy Rudd’s Ballet Shoes has proved as evergreen as the book itself. Outstanding.
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Review: Here & Now
With young talent like this, no-one need worry just yet about British musical theatre. And that is the best reason to see this silly yet warm-hearted pre-Christmas cracker.
Review: Forbidden Places
Tom Stoppard dying the day before recalled Leopoldstraat to many. No-one expected this harrowing slant successor. No wonder the audience were on their feet. Outstanding.
Review: Bruce Ryan Costella: Spooky and Gay.
Gather around the camp fire for tales with a Queer perspective.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Certainly builds as the Globe’s strongest – if not truest - Dream since (at least) their 2013 production.
Review: David Copperfield
An outstanding production, a seasonal offering more satisfying than most pantos.
Review: John Collins Organ Recital St Nicholas Church, Brighton
Another exceptional recital from the unique John Collins. We're lucky to have such a scholarly yet consummate recitalist.
Review: End
Outstanding performances from Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves, and a script fired with conviction and probing tenderness around how we all face death; a must-see.
Review: Jobsworth
A must-see one-person coffee-black comedy, it lasts a full 90 minutes. Libby Rodliffe is a phenomenal performer. And uproarious.
Review: Daria Robertson and Jason Pimblett Recital St Nicholas Church, Brighton
Ten gems delivered by two gem-like musicians.
Review: Óran
A powerful immersive reworking of the descent of Orpheus into the underworld for the digital age
Review: An evening with Will and Tess.
An entertaining evening, split in two with performance poetry and character comedy.
Review: Because We Said We Would
A tender and touching exploration of a relationship that spans decades.
Review: Sussex Musicians SMC Chapel Royal
Real discoveries and delight here. And all so easily to be heard on the website in a few days.
Review: DUSSSKK
An innovative performance which blends audience and performer together to give a unique experience for neurodivergent teenagers.
Review: Duty
A fresh and urgent play, Duty should tour as a salutary reminder of how war impacts community, divides war-influenced majority from the few who see through war.
Review: Kindling
Sarah Rickman and Ciara Pouncett have assembled a superb team. They need to revisit the script once or twice more and they’ll have a winner.
Review: We Are the Lions, Mr Manager
At a time of racialised targeting – a distraction technique born of the very forces Jayaben Desai fought – Grunwick speaks with startling relevance.
Review: Emilia Karaliute Kankles Recital St Nicholas Church, Brighton
A hidden gem of a recital and a consummate performer. Emilia Karaliute must return.
Review: This Little Earth
Jessica Norman is going to be a force. Watch out for her and see a powerful dramatic imagination at least hatch here.
Review: Wyld Woman: The Legend of Shy Girl
For Isabel Renner’s witty one-liners, production values and above all her own performance, this show ends up highly recommended.
Review: The Unbelievers
The Unbelievers confirms the Royal Court’s new phase can again splice the traditionally-crafted with the exploratory. A must-see.
Review: Mr Jones
Once you’ve seen Mr Jones, it will never leave you. Not just history, but the poignancy that shivers across survivors and leaves them buried, ceaselessly pulling them to the past.
Review: The Line of Beauty
Not the most theatrical story, it’s a heady narrative. A dance to the music of a time that marred us, this still compels
Review: Women Only, Albert’s Bridge
Albert’s Bridge is a Stoppard rarity you’re unlikely to see again. And Women Only seems swiftly established as a tiny, semi-precious comic gem.
Review: Emily Jennings and Cassandra Mathews
Exquisite and again a hidden gem. Back in February, this duo are already gaining an enthusiastic following.
Review: The Talented Mr. Ripley
A must-see. Minor caveats aside it’s as absorbing as some productions recently have plodded. This isn’t just any Ripley….
Review: Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts
For Morse fans, this is still a low-yield vintage that can mature
Review: Company of Elders: Mixed Bill
A double-bill of new work by Company of Elders that invites us all to the dance
Review: Sussex Musicians SMC Chapel Royal, Brighton
An almost completely baroque evening with a modernist tail!
Review: Circumscribed: A True Tall Tale of One Father, Two Sons, and Thousands of Foreskins
Delightfully engaging, heartfelt autobiography
Review: Common Tongue
This is a funny, warm, and energetic play about home, ultimately - and the seemingly perpetually impossible subject of speaking Scots
Review: Don’t Stop Me Now
Another integrated and dynamic improvised performance telling the tale of people who will never know better.
Review: Blue/Orange
Absorbing revival – and rethinking - of this still relevant 2000 play about abusing the already-abused in the name of psychiatry.
Review: 2:22 A Ghost Story
Sharp, satisfying in itself, above all hauntingly intelligent in its questions.
Review: Hamlet
Kate Waters ensures the fight scene’s a suitable climax to Robert Hastie’s fleet production.
Review: Mistero Buffo
A thoroughly worthwhile revival, it still kicks and thrills in equal measure. Highly recommended.
Review: The Lightning Thief
There’s talents you’ll want to see and hear. And a stunning set whose production values spring surprises for the audience too. Highly recommended.
Review: Inter Alia
After 15 years away from the stage, Pike returns in a blaze of morals versus the law. Her triumph though is unequivocal.
Review: Keep Your Sunny Side Up
In nearly every way exceptional. Hampshire is consummate and sets off Rouselle as worthy to inhabit Fields.
Review: Who Do They Think They Are?
A finely-written show, with tensions wrought individually to a satisfying whole.
Review: Jason Ma and Seth Schultheis Cello and Piano Recital St Nicholas Church, Brighton
A recital both unusually exhilarating and wholly satisfying.
Review: The Needle Room
An intriguing and beguiling look at the past which is eerily reminiscent of our present.
Review: A. A. Milne The Truth About Blayds
A classic revival of a minor classic. Pacily directed and with a consummate cast, this production couldn’t be bettered
Review: David Lan The Land of the Living
The most moving and theatrically gripping new play I’ve seen for a long time, it’s also the most layered and completely realised. A world that invites ours to ask where on earth we come from.
Review: Cow/Deer
Emphatically theatre worth doing, worth attending, worth fighting to clarify and worth being changed for.
Review: Excel Comedy and Mathem-antics
An Excel-ent romp through spreadsheets, maths and a genuinely emotional secret third thing.
Review: Hamlet
An outstandingly thought-through Hamlet though, with more of the prince and play in it than I’ve seen. And Giles Terera’s is with the best of recent decades.
Review: The Velvet Noose: Stampede of One: The Musical
This unconventional theatrical display challenges the audience to pay close attention and feel the themes of the work throughout the hour.
Review: Ministry; Or, The Surgical Revelation
a medical examination unlike anything you’ve ever seen before
Review: Fires
Binaifer Dabu transports the audience into an immersive tapestry of intimate memories that are funny, sad, and incredibly moving.
Review: Miller The Crucible
It’s almost sold out. If there’s a cancellation on any night, you must see this.
Review: Cirque du Fringe: Claws Out
"embodies the spirit of fringe in a colorful, high-energy, interactive performance that audiences of all ages will love"
