REVIEWS

A dazzling central performance sent an already great production of the musical Cabaret into artistic orbit at Laban theatre and surely...

It’s tough to find new ways of presenting a fairytale as well-known and well-loved as Pinocchio without spoiling its inherent charm but...

What possible connection is there between Brexit, Donald Trump, dentistry, TV academic Mary Beard and Christmas? The answer – of course –...

South-east London is blessed with a seemingly endless supply of talented young jazz musicians. One of the main reasons is the presence of...

Dance, sound, film and light joined forces in choreographer Marina Collard’s existential investigation entitled What This Is, Is… at...

A sale of paintings by brilliant amateur artist Jack Rake at the Greenwich Gallery has raised more than £11,500 for the charity Freedom...

The annual International Early Music Festival returned to newly revamped Blackheath Halls this year with its usual array of the unusual....

Contemporary dance is like abstract expressionist art – both are pure forms of collaboration between creator and viewer. This thought...

Any talk of living guitar heroes almost inevitably zooms in on Messrs Clapton, Beck and Page. But there are others who are just as...

Euripides may have been one of the inventors of playwriting nearly two and half millennia ago but his works are still relevant, as Dennis...

Trinity Laban Percussion Ensemble recitals are always a blast but I can’t recall one that made such an impression as today’s free...

There was a lot of audience laughter during Michael Frayn’s philosophical comedy Here at Greenwich Theatre. It wasn’t the gales of...

This Really Is Too Much risked being exactly that – too much. Part dance, part spoken word, part slapstick, part feminist tract and all...

Unique is a dreadfully overused word but I can’t recall anything else that comes close to resembling Mask Of Youth, artist Mat...

This is a small but perfectly formed exhibition that runs at Tate Modern till next July. You can get a real sense of it in about 20...

Some of the most innovative public performance art I’ve ever seen graced Giffin Square, Deptford, over thee weekends in August. Four...

My, how fortunate we are in Greenwich! Just ten days after a fabulous outdoor Measure For Measure at Severndroog Castle we were treated...

There weren’t any of those swinging Disney songs in Greenwich Theatre’s production of The Jungle Book but that didn’t stop it being...

I love the way drama company Changeling make theatre. Everything I’ve ever seen them do is heartfelt, real, immersive, leftfield – and...

It’s self-evident that a great play can be ruined by a below-par cast – no doubt we all have any number of examples in our memories. But...

Blackheath Halls’ annual opera always has the community at its heart, with local residents and schoolkids performing alongside...

Krump is a form of hiphop street dance from LA that features highly stylised moves designed to echo gang violence, so the bloody story of...

Shakespeare always seemed to know exactly what his audiences wanted. I reckon the London Theatre in New Cross does too, judging by its...

What do a telly, a tea service, a broken umbrella and a copy of the Financial Times have in common? They were all used as musical...

You should always expect the unexpected at one of Trinity Laban’s free lunchtime recitals. And that was never truer than when soprano...

Life as a progression interrupted by brief encounters and occasional relapses was the theme of a Transitions Dance Company triple bill...

Harp-playing bards were once so influential in Ireland that Elizabeth I notoriously ordered the island’s governor: “Hang the harpers...

The Carducci Quartet are one of the world’s finest ensembles – and their most recent recital, at St Alfege’s, showed why. The foursome...

We’re being spoilt for choice in Greenwich at the moment when it comes to seaside photography. Ordinarily, the show at the National...

After the grisly horrors at the heart of Edward II and Lord Of The Flies, the decision by company-in-residence Lazarus to finish their...

The great diarist Samuel Pepys famously buried his block of Parmesan before alerting his family when flames threatened to engulf his...

Legend is a much overused word when talking about musicians. But it‘s an entirely appropriate one when describing folk/roots powerhouse...

Brilliant Dutch jazz guitarist Jesse van Ruller showed just why he has such a towering international reputation when he played sell-out...

In just the past week in Greenwich I have seen works by Robert Clark, Uchenna Dance and Tara D’Arquian, each of which explored different...

The legendary photographer Tony Ray-Jones once called this country’s passion for the beach a “gentle madness” and the quote greets you as...

Ever think acting is easy? Then you should have seen the performance of Lord Of The Flies that I saw at Greenwich Theatre. The young cast...

The children of jazz legends who choose to follow in their parents’ footsteps have to face a lifetime of comparisons, often to their...

The gorgeous great hall of the Queen’s House reverberated with the mellow, if unusual, tones of a double bass and harp duo working their...

This coruscating two-hander at the Albany offered a near-perfect theatrical experience – a terrific play, great direction, a fine set and...

Many satirise Donald Trump but most fail because the man’s so homophobic, so mysogenistic, so racist, so paranoid and so egotistical that...

Any concert featuring three drum-kits is unusual, so one set in a church must be close to unique. But that’s the beauty of the free...

World-famous choreographer Wayne McGregor has spent 25 years probing the mysteries of the human soul. His new work, Autobiography, takes...

I used to think I didn’t like brass band music, even though I always adored the sound of a Stax horn section. But age has mostly shown me...

There was a great opening to Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy Edward II at Greenwich Theatre. To an electronica soundtrack the cast, in...