Review: Little Git
A musical story of everyday disappointment, told by two musicians, reaching a significant age with equally significant decisions to be made.
Genre: Comedy 0
Review: Famous Puppet Death Scenes
"A visually appealing and brilliantly creative massacre of tiny people."
Review: Notflix: Binge
Five actors, one movie idea, a suggested setting, and off they go to improvise a musical
Review: Horrible Herstories
An attempt, in the best possible tradition to retell a history which was very much her story to tell
Review: Done to Death, By Jove!
Traditional fare of the English murder mystery served wrapped in a conundrum of a puzzle with Marple, Poirot, Holmes and a far from elementary theatrical solution
Review: Classic!
A world record attempt at 42 classic texts in one go that provides joy in an uneven presentation.
Review: A Political Breakfast
An amusing hour in the company of three fixers giving us humorous solutions to the pressing issues of the day.
Review: Harry Potter or My Girlfriend… Who Do I Love More?
A very funny hour in the company of a comedy wizard
Review: Self Service
Original idea, well developed and crafted. Mild-mannered delivery is refreshing!
Review: Sylus 2024
A quick witted comedy improv look at a potential 2024 candidate for U.S. President
Review: War of the Worlds (On a Budget)
The unmissable, definitive version of a a budget-driven War of the Worlds
Review: With all Jew respect
"a host that left me wanting to follow him out of the theatre into the bar to continue the not always kosher conversation."
Review: The Tempest
A joyous production, that without its gimmicky close, could certainly furnish a way in for many
Review: Jack Absolute Flies Again
What Richard Bean and Oliver Chris manage is homage, both to Sheridan’s shade, his early bawdy, and despite anything a memorial to those who laughed at themselves to death. A must-see.
Review: Much Ado About Nothing
This isn’t the most revelatory Much Ado, but the most consummate and complete for a while.
Review: Communicating Doors
An excellent revival and the best chance to see this remarkable thriller-cum-farce-cum-meditation.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
An exciting sense of being at the cusp of a new generation. There’s no knowing where this Dream might end.
Review: Dad’s Army
You feel you’ve been part of an invited audience at one of the original TV productions
Review: The False Servant
It’s not just gender-swerving but role-swerving that threatens sexual and social order. Surprises light up even the last fade.
Review: Cluedo
An object lesson in comic timing; a steep cut above the ‘real’ whodunnits we’re likely to see this year or next.
Review: Artificial Intelligence Improvisation
Professional improvisers beware. The robots are after your jobs.
Review: Laughing Horse Clean Pick of The Fringe
The best stand up-up comedy from the fringe but with the swear words removed!
Review: Underdogs
The latest play by Brian Mitchell (Lord God, Ministry of Biscuits) and Joseph Nixon (The Shark is Broken)
Review: Moral Panic
A film censor navigates turbulent times in his work and at home - a comic one-hander with some horror thrown in.
Review: Now That’s What I Call A Lot Of Songs About Science
John Hinton performs hilarious songs of science from a very extensive repertoire
Review: Hay Fever
An exceptional production in so many ways, this Hay Fever boasts some superb acting, on occasion great aplomb
Review: Nathan Cassidy: Observational
With a crippling bad back, Nathan joins a gym and a big, strong man changes his life
Review: Private Lives
Private Lives can never disappoint: it plays itself and as far as it’s a work of verbal tennis this production won’t pall either
Review: An Hour and a Half Late
Don’t miss this authentic, touching, devastatingly comic anatomy of a marriage as soufflé, supremely served by Rhys-Jones and Dee.
Review: The Play That Goes Wrong
A play about amateurs no amateur company should even dare contemplate. There’s genius in the timing of all this. Outstanding.
Review: Absent Friends
If you can book, beg or otherwise snaffle a ticket, you won’t find a more satisfying production anywhere in Brighton this month. Outstanding.
Review: Planet LOL
'The Future Is Unwritten' has a mission to create socially-driven work that focuses on, involves, inspires and entertains people as participants and audiences'. Planet LOL certainly does that.
Review: Little Wimmin
An adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women by all-female performance art collective Figs in Wigs
Review: Relatively Speaking
With his new production director Robin Herford, most associated with this play, brings pace, panache, and more than a dose of Ayckbourn’s generosity of spirit
Review: Twelfth Night
With Michelle Terry as Viola, one of the most touching and truthful Twelfth Nights I’ve seen.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Outdoors, this has grown prodigously. Some actors give transcendent performances up there with London’s finest. Out in the slant air this proves magical.
Review: The Adventures of Sleepyhead
A charming theatrical performance of someone who thinks that by becoming a grown up, they lose their dreams.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Even more than 2019, a carnival riot of joy – with enough misdirection to evoke moonshine
A fascinatingly delivered riff on one woman’s journey for recognition and soul which includes a brush from a smear test.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Some actors give transcendent performances up there with London’s finest. Out in the slant air this will now prove magical.
Review: Ellipsis
A mix of stand up and confessional which is funny and tragic in almost equal measure.
Review: The Twits
A summer must-see to charge you up for the autumn, and taking on the real twits ahead.
Review: Misfits
An important play, tackling the deadly serious with laughter that all too easily could lead to stark tragedy.
Review: Jeeves and Wooster Perfect Nonsense
A professional-standard production, and magnificent start to the 2020s.
Review: Dirty Tricks: How the Illusionati Rule the World
Revealed, the secret cabal of magicians that rule the world
Review: Shaw Shorts
A joyous, heady and oh-so-welcome return to this intimate yet high-kicking theatre. An absolute must-see.
Review: Tender
A show about the mind-bending intensity of new motherhood (in, and out of, a pandemic) - but mostly about kindness, gentleness, and joy.
Review: Jew… ish
One of the wittiest but also truthful comedies about love, identity, sexual politics and gefilte fish I’ve seen
Review: Tim Ferguson – Smashing Life (Motivation For Idiots)
Delivers exactly what's promised... and more
Review: Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday
A throwback performance to when Music Hall was King, Queen and Pearly Dreams.
Review: The Official Dick Whittington – A Pantomime for 2020
It’s a joyous confection out of thin lockdown.
Review: The Merry Wives of Windsor
A joyful fleet production, a more-than-rough magic. What renders OFS unique is their fearlessness: a humour and zest to tear into buried Shakespeare, read the entrails.
Review: A Coward Coupling
Family Album is possibly the most disastrous production this already unfortunate play has ever sustained. More, Coward would declare it’s a travesty; of genius. Hands Across the Sea is pitch-perfect in a slightly outré version of what Coward meant.
Review: San Francisco Fringe Festival 2020 Sneak Peek!
Catch a taste of what's to come at the 2021 San Francisco Fringe Festival!
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
This surely is the greatest Dream since Peter Brook’s landmark 1970 production.
Review: The Merchant of Venice
A fleet traversal memorable for insights the company bring during and after their performance of it
Review: The Understudy
Do catch it, and match the feelgood price with nudging theatres towards opening night.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
With Baum’s direction they and we discover new thresholds, new anatomies
Review: The Merry Wives of Windsor
One of the two most cogent, most fun Merry Wives of recent years.
Review: Comics in Quarantine Solving Problems
An Englishman and an American join forces to solve your's and the World's problems
Review: A Separate Peace
Stoppard looks at society’s phantom limb ethic. Even when it’s gone it aches, and it aches to have someone opting out.
Review: Twelfth Night
Tamsin Greig’s extremes as Malvolia mark the first intimations of the terrible and define this production. The ground’s shifted.
Review: Quartet
Like The French Lieutenant’s Woman, there are now two endings to Quartet. You must see this if you know the film only, or care about music, ageing, friendship and achingly lost love.
