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…
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Theatrical Comedy What would you do for an Oscar? Actor and filmmaker Nick Cohen relives his desperate Hollywood years. Nick flees South London to live as a permanent guest on Sunset Boulevard with a double Oscar-winner, a man who worked regularly with Orson Welles, who promises...
Long after the would-be wizard floats away in his balloon, the Scarecrows new post* is as King of Oz. All is well along the yellow brick road until new and mysterious forces seek to conquer the Emerald City...Here in our world author Frank Baum turns his pen to new ideas, but...
Supported by nkoda. Presented with Barnes Music Festival. Recommended by Classic FM and BBC Radio 3.The UK's first women and non-binary orchestra showcase string quartets written by women in a converted postal sorting office.Her Ensemble bring together a diverse group of...
Supported by nkoda. Presented with Barnes Music Festival. Recommended by Classic FM and BBC Radio 3.Award-winning performers and composers Hlose Werner and Colin Alexander perform a variety of new music in a converted postal sorting office.Regulars on BBC Radio 3, their...
The passionate story of Fryderyk Chopin and George Sand told in music and words.Performed by Viv McLean (piano) and Susan Porrett (narrator) and interwoven with some of Chopins loveliest piano works, Divine Fire traces the relationship between Fryderyk Chopin and the authoress...
Putney Theatre Company is delighted to announce Baby on Board, a new play written by Sheen resident Marcia Kelson. Part comedy, part drama, this play with songs explores the highs and lows of expecting a baby.Three couples have signed up for private antenatal classes. Teacher...
How much can one choice change your life?One decision creates two wildly different lives in this hilarious, uplifting and 100% improvised musical. Every show is unique as Multiverse take a location and title from the audience before spontaneously spinning a Sliding Doors style...
A celebration of the life and career of Vivien Leigh in music and words.Graham Roos - writer/narratorCarole Ashby - vocalsSam Jewison - piano Developed out of 7 Star Arts sell-out production An Evening With Vivien Leigh, Cocktails With Vivien celebrates the life and career of...
Waiting in the Wings - a collection of short playsDirected by Maurice Thorogood and Produced by Julia HaythornRare Fortune Productions are delighted to be returning once more to the OSO after their post-lockdown production of Brief Encounters. This time their collection of short...
Two idiots at the BBC are making another Blue Planet, but how do you know what a fish is if you've never left your office? Put on your polar ice caps and climb aboard an adventure to save the oceans! Featuring swashbuckling swordfish, hammerhead and spannerhead sharks, wailing...
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