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Stephen Wilson jnr - SWX or now Electric Bristol, Bristol - review
Those who have been lucky enough to experience Stephen Wilson Jnr’s fabled live shows often speak about wishing they could bottle up that...

Paul Gainey
5 hours ago4 min read


“How To Win Against History” at Bristol Old Vic - review
Nearly 10 years after its premiere, Seiriol Davies’ musical about the life of the fifth Marquess of Anglesey, Henry Cyril Paget, “How To...

Paul Gainey
5 hours ago3 min read


Dom Martin at Bath's Chapel Arts Centre - review
Fresh off winning Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2025 UK Blues Awards, acclaimed guitarist and singer-songwriter Dom Martin performed...

Paul Gainey
Jun 183 min read


Thomas Heppell gig review - Bath's Arts Centre
In the dynamic world of blues music, Thomas Heppell is strumming his way to prominence not just by preserving the genre’s rich legacy but...

Paul Gainey
Jun 183 min read


“The Beautiful Future Is Coming” at the Bristol Old Vic - review
Flora Wilson Brown’s play, “The Beautiful Future Is Coming”, directed at the Bristol Old Vic by Nancy Medina, tackles climate grief...

Paul Gainey
Jun 183 min read


War Horse at the Bristol Hippodrome review: still one of British theatre’s most phenomenal creations
The National Theatre’s acclaimed production of “War Horse”, directed by Tom Morris with revival director Katy Henry, opened at Bristol’s...

Paul Gainey
Jun 123 min read
King Lear – Almedia
Powerful, angry performances hold together Yaël Farber’s sprawling, bleak vision of a king and his country in terminal decline in King Lear at Almeida Theatre, London.

Paul Gainey
May 292 min read


Nye Bevin – Donmar
At London’s Donmar Warehouse, Lucy Kirkwood’s The Human Body depicts the establishing of the National Health Service through the eyes of a Shropshire doctor.

Paul Gainey
May 292 min read


Bangers (BOV)
Bristol Old Vic theatre was caught in the middle of a real-life drama when the star of its latest production was injured at the start of a sell-out run of Bangers at the Weston Studio.

Paul Gainey
May 292 min read


Talented Mr Ripley
It feels appropriate, somehow, that Tom Ripley, the ever-chameleonic con man created by author Patricia Highsmith, has proven a bit of a...

Paul Gainey
May 294 min read


Patriots – Noel Coward Theatre
Patriots circles around a group of high-profile dissidents, some now dead. Chief among them here is Boris Berezovsky, a talented mathematician turned businessman, and friend turned foe to Vladimir Putin.

Paul Gainey
May 283 min read


Indiana Jones – last one
Indiana Jones is back. The good news is that it isn't a disaster. It's a respectable, competent addition to the series and Indiana goes out on a high.

Paul Gainey
May 284 min read


Oppenheimer
"Oppenheimer” is director/writer Christopher Nolan’s best and most revealing work. It’s a profoundly unnerving story told with a traditionalist’s eye towards craftsmanship and muscular, cinematic imagination

Paul Gainey
May 284 min read


Four Season – Bristol Old Vic
Bristol Live and the Bristol Post ran my review of Bristol Old Vic's festive children's musical play, "Four Seasons".

Paul Gainey
May 281 min read


Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer is now unquestionably this year’s frontrunner, with 13 nominations, mushrooming on the horizon and seemingly set to incinerate everything in its path. We will know tonight as it's Oscar night!!

Paul Gainey
May 282 min read


Operation Mincemeat
As proof that super shows can come in small packages, it’s a pleasure to welcome Operation Mincemeat to a West End too often characterised by musical bloating

Paul Gainey
May 282 min read


Guys and Dolls – Bridge Theatre
Astonishingly, Guys and Dolls is the Bridge Theatre’s first ever musical, but on the strength of such a vivid, vibrant triumph of a revival, I should hope not its last.

Paul Gainey
May 283 min read


Promising Young Woman
Have the Oscars started taking Carey Mulligan for granted? It’s a measure of how highly the British actor is regarded that her latest nomination – her third – has been met with so little fuss. No one expected her to win for her performance as Felicia, Leonard Bernstein’s glamorous, long-suffering South American wife, in Maestro.

Paul Gainey
May 283 min read
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