Northern Ballet’s David Nixon demonstrates with The Great Gatsby his genius for giving audiences three ingredients that ensure a successful…
Waitress, Wales Millennium Centre
June 1, 2022The front curtain for the show Waitress is a cherry pie and for a moment I expected something to pop…
The Black Spider, WNO Youth Opera
May 30, 2022The Covid-delayed performances of WNO Youth Opera’s staging of the one hour show The Black Spider by Judith Weir demonstrated…
Jeff Beck, St David’s Hall
May 28, 2022The word ‘legend’ is often overused and applied to music artists who, while being excellent in their own right, fall…
Celebrated Virgins, Theatr Clwyd
May 27, 2022Celebrated Virgins is based on the true story of the Ladies of Llangollen retold for a modern world. In Ireland…
Singin’ in the Rain, Wales Millennium Centre
May 25, 2022The smile never left my face throughout this very polished and elegant feel-good staging of Singin’ in the Rain. With…
School of Rock at WMC
May 17, 2022It may not be the most dramatic or spectacular of musicals, but I must admit that I have always had…
Bianca del Rio at St David’s Hall, Cardiff
May 10, 2022At one stage in his show Bianca Del Rio made a light-hearted moan that there are drag queens everywhere, which…
Six at Wales Millennium Centre
May 4, 2022I realised I was not the target market for this show when the singers who “play” each of the six…
Lord of the Dance, New Theatre, Cardiff
April 26, 2022There is no getting away from the fact that Lord of the Dance was an intoxicating evening’s entertainment that swept…