Review: A CHILD OF SCIENCE, Bristol Old Vic
Ultimately, A Child of Science offers a vivid portrayal of the intersection between scientific pursuit and human longing.
Tim Wright
Review: THE DRIFTERS GIRL, Bristol Hippodrome
It’s hard to tell the entire story of The Drifters.
BWW Review: LES MISERABLES, Bristol Hippodrome
It’s tough to keep a musical juggernaut like Les Misérables going.
BWW Review: THE RED LION, Bristol Old Vic
Football is not a subject often tackled in the theatre.
BWW Review: DR SEMMELWEIS, Bristol Old Vic
'Doctors must not carry their ghosts,' advises Johann Klein to his impatient assistant Dr Ignaz Semmelweis, a 19th-century obstetrics doctor.
Opinion: The Shutdown Might Spark A Theatre On Demand Revolution
The industry has long grappled with a simple question: how do you get non-habitual theatregoers into the theatre? COVID-19 may be a serious threat to the arts, but it's going to accelerate a long overdue change.
BWW Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON, Bristol Hippodrome
If you speak to someone who says they don't like musicals, chances are, when you mention The Book of Mormon you'll be greeted with more enthusiasm than scepticism.
BWW Review: DICK WHITTINGTON, Bristol Hippodrome
When on song, panto can be monumentally brilliant.
BWW Review: FUNNY GIRL, Théâtre Marigny, Paris
The feeling you don't conform to the mould that society expects, is a feeling familiar to most of us in our lives at some point or another.
BWW Review: THE LION KING, Bristol Hippodrome
Occasionally, when musicals head out on tour, the grandeur and the spectacle that exists to thrill audiences in London seems to get lost somewhere around the M25.
BWW Review: MALORY TOWERS, Passenger Shed
At first glance, Enid Blyton's Malory Towers seems an odd choice for the second outing of Emma Rice's Wise Children theatre company.
BWW Review: DAVID O'DOHERTY, TIM KEY, SARA BARRON, PHIL WANG AND JOHN ROBINS, Bristol Comedy Garden
Bristol Comedy Garden has truly blossomed.
BWW Review: DEAD DOG IN A SUITCASE (AND OTHER LOVE SONGS), Bristol Old Vic
'Bring it down, bring it all down' is the anarchic cry from Macheath in Kneehigh's take on The Beggar's Opera.
BWW Review: ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI, Bristol Old Vic
It's 1964 and Cassius Clay has just beaten the odds to become Heavyweight Champion of the World.
BWW Review: MATILDA THE MUSICAL, Bristol Hippodrome
Children are just revolting aren't they? They're snivelling maggots that need discipline, discipline and more discipline.
BWW Review: BARBER SHOP CHRONICLES, Bristol Old Vic
'It's your pub' says Winston, about the Three Kings Barber shop in London.
BWW Review: OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD, Tobacco Factory Theatres
It's a sensible time to be tackling Timberlake Wertenbaker's modern classic Our Country's Good.
BWW Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Tobacco Factory Theatres
It's fitting that the once industrial space of the Tobacco Factory is now the dystopian setting for the latest outing of the Factory Company - a gender-bending A Midsummer Night's Dream.
BWW Review: KINKY BOOTS, Bristol Hippodrome
There's something undeniably irrepressible about Kinky Boots - it's a fully sequined, unabashed romp through a true (ish) story of a shoe factory threatened with closure until a radical idea to start producing oh so fabulous boots for drag queens appears.
BWW Review: WISE CHILDREN, Bristol Old Vic
'Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people' writes Angela Carter in her 1992 book Wise Children and that is the starting point for Emma Rice's furiously fast adaptation in this, the first outing for her newly formed theatre company of the same name.
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