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THEATRE REVIEW: KISS ME KATE, CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE Published: 29/06/12
IT'S not often that a set change gets a round of applause. But when a cloth rises from a box on stage to blossom into a huge tree it is met with conspicuous approval. Robert Jones's design is just one element in Trevor Nunn's revival of Cole Porter's backstage musical that hammers itself into the co...

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THEATRE REVIEW: LOSERVILLE, WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE Published: 29/06/12
HAVING been runner-up to Will Young in 2002's Pop Idol, celebrated ex-stammerer Gareth Gates has had to work harder to maintain his profile....

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DANCE REVIEW: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET Published: 24/06/12
PONDEROUS two hours and 50 minutes long, a surfeit of characters and some of the best neo-classical dance-making seen in this country. Yes, when choreographer David Bintley sees a challenge, he doesn't just throw a glove down, he dumps the whole suit of armour....

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THEATRE REVIEW: EXPOSING HEART OF FAMILY LIFE Published: 24/06/12
THE National Theatre is one of our most important providers of new plays in London, arguably eclipsed only by the Royal Court....

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DANCE REVIEW: TANTZHEATER WUPPERTAL PINA BAUSCH: WORLD CITIES 2012, BARBICAN Published: 22/06/12
THERE are few more divisive characters in dance than Pina Bausch....

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THEATRE REVIEW: GATZ, NOEL COWARD THEATRE, LONDON Published: 22/06/12
LIKE the malfunctioning clock on stage, time stands still for the eight hours of Elevator Repair Service's production of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby....

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DANCE REVIEW: FAR FROM THE MADDENING CROWD, BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET Published: 22/06/12
IS there a better narrative dancemaker in Britain than BRB's David Bintley? I doubt it....

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STAGE REVIEW: ANTIGONE, NATIONAL THEATRE, LONDON Published: 15/06/12
HOW far can you sacrifice common humanity to rule a state? This is the question at the heart of Sophocles' tragedy that speaks to us 2,500 years after it was written....

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STAGE REVIEW: FLAWLESS/ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET, HAMMERSMITH APOLLO Published: 15/06/12
STREET boys meet ballet girls in this dance to the music of time. A joint production between Britain's Got Talent finalists Flawless and the English National Ballet it is a fizzing fusion of the two styles....

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STAGE REVIEW: HENRY V, GLOBE THEATRE, LONDON Published: 15/06/12
JUST as Henry V is known for its rousing and quotable rhetoric ("Once more unto the breach, dear friends!"; "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers") so too is it recognised for presenting something of a problem....

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