As You Like It: “Something of a mixed bag”
Jessica Harris is left feeling flat by this RSC production.
The Merry Wives of Windsor: “topical and humorous”
Shakespeare’s immortal farce, updated by the RSC and enjoyed by Jessica Harris.
Kyoto: “intense and captivating”
Jessica Harris enjoys the RSC’s take on climate change.
Review: The Buddha of Suburbia
A new take on a modern classic, as seen by Jessica Harris.
Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost
Jessica Harris reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest production.
Review: Ben & Imo
Jessica Harris visits the RSC for a modern-day musical treat.
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Jessica Harris enjoys an unseasonal classic from the RSC.
Review: The Fair Maid of the West
Jessica Harris is taken by this RSC production.
Review: The Box of Delights
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Christmas offering enchants Jessica Harris.
Review: The Merchant of Venice
Jessica Harris watches the RSC’s latest interpretation of the Shakespeare classic.
Review: Macbeth
Jessica Harris watches the RSC’s latest production.
Review: Falkland Sound
Jessica Harris watches the RSC tackling a modern war story.
Review: The Empress
Jessica Harris explores a tale of empire at the RSC.
Review: As You Like It
The RSC’s latest production, as seen by Jessica Harris.
Review: Hamnet
Jessica Harris has a mixed response at the Swan Theatre.
Review: Julius Caesar
Jessica Harris hails the RSC’s latest production.
Review: Richard III
Jessica Harris ventures to see the RSC in one of Shakespeare’s finest.
Wars of the Roses
Jessica Harris reviews this RSC production.
Review: Henry VI: Rebellion
Jessica Harris reviews this Royal Shakespeare Company production.
Review: The Comedy of Errors
Jessica Harris sees the RSC’s latest production.
Dream, by the Royal Shakespeare Company
Jessica Harris reviews this online digital production.
Review: Romeo and Juliet
Jessica Harris watches the latest online offering from the RSC.
Twelve years a slave to the stage: My best (and worst) moments
Richard Lutz remembers a dozen years of reviewing Midland performances.
Living in a viral world
Richard Lutz re-adjusts to a life that has changed.
Review: The Boy in The Dress
Richard Lutz takes his pew for a feel.good musical about change and friendship.
RSC Review: A Museum in Baghdad
Richard Lutz watches two plays on the same Stratford stage. But does it work?
RSC review: Shakespeare swaps genders in the swinging sixties
Richard Lutz takes his pew for King John at Stratford’s Swan Theatre.
Measure for Measure review at Stratford: ‘..the stage sweats sex…’
Richard Lutz is whisked back to a Shakespearean play set in a turn of the century Vienna.
Review: Venice Preserved at The Swan, Stratford
Richard Lutz is dragged into the world of Restoration noir at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Review: The Provoked Wife at The Swan in Stratford
Richard Lutz takes a pew for a 300 year-old sex comedy that’s still alive and kicking.