Review: THE BFG, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - December 14, 2025
Co-Artistic Director of the RSC Daniel Evans brings to life one of Roald Dahl’s most darkly beloved children’s books in an utterly thrilling adaptation by Tom Wells. ...
Review: CINDERELLA, Norwich Theatre
by Kat Mokrynski - December 15, 2025
In Norwich’s 2025 pantomime, Cinderella, audiences are transported to the beach town of Crabbington Sands, where Cinderella (Georgie May Foote) has been trapped in the old hotel that her deceased parents used to run by her wicked sisters, Lou (Owen Evans) and Lav (Kenny Moore). But, when Cinderella ...
Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Reading Rep Theatre
by Jo Caruana - December 09, 2025
A biscuit-scented, warm-hearted Dickens – Beth Flintoff's adaptation relocates the classic to Reading's Huntley & Palmers factory, and the result is festive theatre with real local soul. Until 3 Jan...
Film Review: BLUE MOON, In Cinemas
by Gary Naylor - December 08, 2025
Richhard Linklater's film is set of the opening night of Oklahoma! in 1943, the beginning of the end for Richard Rodgers' first lyricist...
Review: PUSS IN BOOTS, Theatre Royal Winchester
by Kat Mokrynski - December 12, 2025
At Theatre Royal Winchester this holiday season, Play to the Crowd is bringing one of the classic pantomimes, Puss in Boots, to life in a pawsome new production, written and directed by Robin Belfield. Audiences join Puss (Bekah Selina), who must not only battle the evil Fluella Frostbite (Emma Fenn...
Review: MY FAIR LADY, The Mill At Sonning
by Kat Mokrynski - December 01, 2025
For their Christmas show this year, The Mill at Sonning is putting on My Fair Lady, the 1956 Broadway musical written by Alan Jay Lerner (Lyrics and Book) and Frederick Loewe (Music). For those unfamiliar with the venue, it is an intimate, 217-seat theatre in the semi-round that operates as a dinner...
Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Leicester Curve
by Laura Lott - November 28, 2025
There are some stories that never grow old, and The Sound of Music is definitely one of them. Sixty years after the movie premiered, and sixty-six since the stage show first hit Broadway, this tale of love, family, the healing power of music, and resistance against persecution in 1930s Austria is as...
Review: THE NUTCRACKER, Birmingham Hippodrome
by Laura Lott - November 24, 2025
Falling snow, a rapidly-growing Christmas tree and an army of sword-fighting rats: it can only be Sir Peter Wright's The Nutcracker. Birmingham Royal Ballet's opulent, charming and whimsical production returns to Birmingham Hippodrome - where Wright's version received its premier in 1990 - and bring...