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REVIEW: PLAY WITHOUT WORDS Published: 05/08/12
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In the Eighties Matthew Bourne started out as a true enfant terrible of dance. He grabbed classical ballet by the throat and gave it a darned good shaking

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FIRST NIGHT REVIEW: TWELFTH NIGHT, APOLLO THEATRE, LONDON Published: 20/11/12
AFTER a brief run at the Globe Theatre (no critics invited) this all-male production of Shakespeare's comedy has landed in the West End where it's playing in rep with Richard III....

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DANCE REVIEW: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Published: 02/11/12
IN CONTRAST to David Bintley's grand, gothic romantic version for Birmingham Royal Ballet, David Nixon's more recent production is a nimble, fleet-footed caper that touches on pantomime without wallowing in it....

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THEATRE REVIEW: NSFW Published: 02/11/12
THE title of Lucy Kirkwood's new play is short for Not Safe For Work, a reference to online stuff that you don't want your boss to catch you opening....

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STAGE REVIEW: THE RIVER, ROYAL COURT THEATRE, LONDON Published: 29/10/12
CREATING a massive buzz because it's his first work since his mega-hit Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth's intriguing new play in the Royal Court's tiny upstairs theatre opens with a posh young couple in a country cabin bickering about the relative merits of fly fishing or watching a beautiful sunset....

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THEATRE REVIEW: 55 DAYS, HAMPSTEAD THEATRE, LONDON Published: 26/10/12
OFF with his head! No, we're not talking about French revolutionaries but our own. Howard Brenton's dilemma-packed new play deals with the 55 days leading up to the trial and execution of Charles I in 1649 following the English Civil War....

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MUSICAL REVIEW: 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL, NEW THEATRE WIMBLEDON Published: 26/10/12
CONSIDERING the popularity of the annoyingly catchy title song this has been a long time coming....

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DANCE REVIEW: FLASH MOB, SADLER'S WELLS, PEACOCK THEATRE, LONDON Published: 26/10/12
TELEVISION has done more to communise dance than any other medium by shining an interrogative light into dark, elitist corners as well as putting a new spin on an ancient form....

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DANCE REVIEW: NEW WORK 2012, MICHAEL CLARK COMPANY, BARBICAN THEATRE Published: 26/10/12
MICHAEL Clark's show begins with a dancer descending on to a bare stage backlit in blue, green and purple illuminating dance pieces of floating, athletic solos and pas de deux, springy jumps and elegantly dissolving and reassembling groups....

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THEATRE REVIEW: CABARET, AMERICAN IDIOT, LUNGS AND THIS HOUSE Published: 14/10/12
THIS has been a week for knock-your-socks-off theatre: art of originality and constant surprises, whether on a major scale or a tiny one....

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SIâN PHILLIPS: MY LIFE REALLY IS A CABARET Published: 14/10/12
I AM nervous when I knock on Siân Phillips's dressing room door. She is, after all, a bona fide star who as well as her television work (she was acclaimed for her performance as Livia in the BBC series, I Claudius and won plaudits for her stage roles including Hedda Gabler) also played the ultimate ice queen, Marlene Dietrich....

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