MICHAEL GRAY'S ARTS BLOG

The life of bees, and even theoretical physics, are increasingly familiar tropes in fiction and the drama. Nick Payne’s moving miniatu...

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR – THE MUSICAL CTW at The Old Court Theatre 08.12.17 Shakespeare’s problem comedy – a star vehicle for t...

CASA VALENTINA Chelmsford Theatre Workshop at the Old Court 25.07.17 Harvey F ier stein. Kinky Boots, Cage aux Folles, and, s...

HARVEY Chelmsford Theatre Workshop at the Old Court 07.04.17 Harvey first “appeared” on Broadway a lifetime ago, but this poo...

THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH CTW at the Old Court Theatre 02.10.16 Improbable even by the standards of farce, Royce Ryton's black c...

MR KOLPERT CTW at the Old Court Theatre 02 .0 8 .16 Though it premièred at the Royal Court, Herr Kolpert is a German play [by Dav...

THINGS TO COME - COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY Another interesting rarity from CTW – The Compleat Female Stage Beauty [filmed in 2004 as ...

SARCOPHAGUS Chelmsford Theatre Workshop at the Old Court Theatre 20.04.2016 It's thirty years since the world heard w...

SWEENEY TODD Chelmsford Theatre Workshop at the Old Court 16.12.15 Sondheim's Sweeney ? At the Old Court ? Mine certainly ...

NO SEX PLEASE, WE'RE BRITISH Chelmsford Theatre Workshop at the Old Court Theatre 20.01.15 “ The amateur version is differen...

BLACKADDER'S CHRISTMAS CAROL CTW at the Old Court Theatre Chelmsford 11 . 12 .201 4 Here's the Old Court Blackadder co...