In case one forgot, there's more to Lerner and Loewe than just My Fair Lady and Brigadoon. Take Gigi , for example-here presented in a well-done production at the Open Air.

The pros and cons of feminism are given a too thorough going over in Joanna Murray-Smith's The Female of the Species. There's a strong whiff of desperation as the play plods along.

The Revengers Tragedy ( Thomas Middleton's gory Jacobean story) comes across as an extravagantly over-staged production. It operates on the principle that nothing succeeds like excess.

Marguerite is a real mess. It's one thing to remove the comedy from musical-comedy. But the creative team hasn't found anything to replace it with.

This Deep Blue Sea has audiences laughing at the characters rather than feeling for them