Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap: Milton Keynes Theatre

Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap: Milton Keynes Theatre

11:00am Tuesday 25th September 2012

As the curtain fell on The Mousetrap at Milton Keynes on Monday, the unmasked murderer stepped forward to tell the audience we were now all partners in crime. “We ask you to keep the secret of who dunnit closely in your hearts.”

Frankie and Johnny In the Clair de Lune: The Theatre, Chipping Norton

Frankie and Johnny In the Claire de Lune: The Theatre, Chipping Norton

3:23pm Thursday 20th September 2012

THE vigorous copulation that begins Frankie and Johnny In the Clair de Lune might be deemed rather shocking for audiences.

New Oxford theatre company inspired by Elizabethan concepts

New Oxford theatre company inspired by Elizabethan concepts

11:00am Thursday 30th August 2012

Just when you thought Oxford was sufficiently endowed with theatrical companies, along comes another to add to the mix — and the founders promise that this one will be refreshingly different.

Tough girl reputation

Tough girl reputation

10:00am Thursday 30th August 2012

Kate O’ Mara can scarcely conceal her disdain for her part in Murder On The Nile coming to the Oxford Playhouse on Monday.

Theme is a dead ringer for our era

Theme is a dead ringer for our era

10:00am Thursday 30th August 2012

Nick Utechin hears how North Wall’s upcoming Dead On Her Feet chimes with issues today

Open submission photography: Art Jericho

Open submission photography: Art Jericho

1:57pm Wednesday 29th August 2012

Art Jericho’s second open photographic submission has attracted enthusiastic and imaginative responses from a wide range of photographers, resulting in more than 60 images in the exhibition.

Bully Boy: Royal&Dergate, Northampton, and St James Theatre, London

Anthony Andrews and Joshua Miles in Bully Boy Picture: Mike Eddowes

1:51pm Wednesday 29th August 2012

Famous as a radio presenter, comedian and novelist, Sandi Toksvig possesses yet another side to her exuberant talents, as a writer for the stage. After supplying the book for the musical Big Night Out and co-authoring the comedy Pocket Dreams, she next turned her attention to serious drama. Bully Boy, which studies the effect of wars on those we send to fight them, opened to critical acclaim in Southampton last year. With the same two-strong cast — the hugely respected Anthony Andrews and charismatic newcomer Joshua Miles — it is at Northampton’s Royal&Derngate before moving to London where it will open the new St James Theatre, Victoria, on September 18.

Hysteria: Oxford Playhouse

Hysteria: Oxford Playhouse

1:38pm Wednesday 29th August 2012

Though Terry Johnson’s Hysteria was named Best Comedy in the 1994 Olivier Awards, the play is not exactly, well, hysterical. Unlike Johnson’s next success Dead Funny, which supplies what the title appears to promise, Hysteria — skilfully revived under the direction of its author — is only fitfully amusing. I laughed about as often as its protagonist Sigmund Freud tells us he did on a visit to Ben Travers’s Rookery Nook: four times, he says, with characteristic precision.

Sher and share alike

Sher and share alike

10:24am Thursday 23rd August 2012

Antony Sher’s credits would make most actors weep with envy. But does he save it all for the stage? KATHERINE MACALISTER finds out

Timon of Athens: The National Theatre

Timon of Athens: The National Theatre

2:33pm Wednesday 22nd August 2012

First he revels, then he rants, the two phases in the career of Timon of Athens being perfectly caught in another spellbinding performance from Simon Russell Beale.

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