Returning to Covent Garden for the first time since it waltzed off with an Olivier in 2022, Richard Jones’ Alcina is ravishing to look at, a joy to hear and its clever design motifs still stand out from the crowd.…
There's an indecently good chance that you will walk out of Jill's Tupperware Party very different to how you came in. It may be because you now have a brand new attitude to those leftovers that have been mouldering away in the fridge for the past week. Or maybe its the shiny new hairnet over your h…
What did our critic think of THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE at Salisbury Playhouse?…
Clifford Odets' 1937 indictment of consumer society gets a big revival, but proves a souless waste of acting talent…
Anne Frank. Jeff Mangum. And Salty Brine. Maybe especially Salty Brine. If the audience takes one thing away from this tremendous show, it is that one individual can illuminate an entire world.…
It’s the mid-80s and India is changing. A young girl is growing up surrounded by nature under a blue sky until the landscape starts to transform. A factory rises right on her doorstep, and its fumes cloud the heavens. One night, everything changes. The American pesticide plant leaks 32 tons of tox…
“It’s tradition, Oliver. Traditions are important”, so says Dawn in the Inside No. 9 episode “Last Night of the Proms”, explaining the actions of the Prommers during the Fantasia on British Sea-Songs section of the concert to her teenage nephew. Anyone at the Royal Albert Hall (or watching…
Those worrying that Tilda Swinton — the patron saint of Sunday afternoon arthouse movies and performance art best experienced through reviews — has gone mainstream should make themselves a cup of chamomile tea and relax. There are likely very few famous actors (never mind Oscar winners) queuing …
“It is difficult composing endings. Beethoven and Wagner could do it. Only great composers can do it. I can do it too.” It wasn’t just Richard Strauss’s death-embracing 'Four Last Songs' which fit this theme in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s final Prom of the season, as Franz Schube…
New play that veers off in an unfortunate direction and loses much of its punch as a consequence…
BREAKING NEWS: Two Opposing World Leaders Kiss At A Conference! But will they make love or war? Two rival nations: Emory is the Foreign Secretary for the Right Wing and slightly totalitarian Herulia. Milona is the Ambassador for the Left Wing and slightly sadistic Gepidia. When...
It's 2019 and Star is cast in a YouTube reality competition series by Jubilee called "Odd Man Out: Vegans versus Meat Eaters" where contestants find the non-vegan mole for a cash prize. This video went viral to over 17 million views and Star was given the "Villain Edit." As a...
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