Review: THE 39 STEPS at Malvern Theatres
Frantic, frenzied and farcical fun. ★★★★☆
Recent Reviews
Review: THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Bristol Old Vic
Courageously minimalist and non-naturalistic, this is certainly The Glass Menagerie in a fresh new guise. ★★★★☆
Review: HAMILTON at Bristol Hippodrome
Breath-taking in its scope and ambition, Hamilton is fired up with musical inventiveness. ★★★★★
Review: Welsh National Opera – DEATH IN VENICE at Bristol Hippodrome
In this extraordinary production of Death In Venice the idea that the pursuit of beauty can be dangerous takes on a striking three-dimensional form. ★★★★★
Review: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s THE SLEEPING BEAUTY at Bristol Hippodrome
This lavish production gives ballet fans everything they could hope for. ★★★★★
Featured
BOOK REVIEW: ‘THE ACTOR AND THE SPACE’ BY DECLAN DONNELLAN
Tackling fundamental questions that face any actor – What makes performance better? How do I create a space for my character to live in?
INTERVIEW: WITH DAME DARCEY BUSSELL
As Birmingham Royal Ballet brings 'The Sleeping Beauty' to Bristol Hippodrome we hear from Dame Darcey Bussell who made the title role her own.
Book Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: ‘WHAT ACTORS DO’ BY MIKE ALFREDS
For non-actors, this book offers a window on the actor’s art; for the actor both an interrogation and a call-to-arms from a director whose passion for the theatre has clearly never dimmed.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘SHAKESPEARE’S BOOK’ BY CHRIS LAOUTARIS
In this 1st Folio Quatercentenary year, it is appropriate that we should be reminded that The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, and Macbeth are just some of the plays that were only preserved thanks to the astounding labour of love that went into creating the first collection. Reviewed by Andrew Hilton
Other Theatre News
Nancy Medina Announces A 5 Year Commitment To New Writing At Bristol Old Vic
“We will make a theatre which is for our whole community. Not a passive place but one of activism."
