The View from the Circle

As nice as it is to be surprised, it’s also nice when you think you’re going to love something, you see the something and you actually do lo...

An annual pilgrimage to the Chichester Festival Theatre is one of the highlights of my summer these days. Last year it was big glossy musi...

Guilty confessions of a Shakespeare fan: until this year I had never seen Hamlet live. Even worse, I’d never seen it in any format all th...

The last time composer Tim Minchin and director Matthew Warchus collaborated a beautiful thing was created: Matilda . Combining that level...

They say the best theatre teaches us things about ourselves that we didn’t know. Well I learned something about myself whilst watching Sho...

What do early Arthur Miller play No Villain and Conservative party conference have in common? I’ll tell you. They are two of the only sit...

It is very rare these days that I go and see something at the theatre that I genuinely haven’t seen before. That’s not to say that I don’t...