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Peter Mason
windrush
Books / 19 November 2025
19 November 2025

PETER MASON is beguiled by a fascinating account of the importance of cricket to immigrants from the Caribbean to the UK

peek
Books / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025

PETER MASON is gripped by a novel that confronts corporate callousness with those prepared to act to bring about change

monarchs
Book Review / 4 November 2025
4 November 2025

PETER MASON is tickled by a new book and exhibition that mine the rotten anachronism of the monarchy for laughs

pickney
Theatre Review / 29 October 2025
29 October 2025

PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son

haar
Music Review / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025

PETER MASON thrills to Irish folk band The Haar

burning spear
Gig Review / 12 August 2025
12 August 2025

PETER MASON relishes a legend of Jamaican roots reggae still plying his trade with a large degree of spirit

flam
Dance / 30 May 2025
30 May 2025

PETER MASON is wowed (and a little baffled) by the undeniably ballet-like grace of flamenco

IT'S JUST NOT CRICKET: Protesters demonstrate outside Lord's Cricket Ground in London, on February 25 2025, against England playing Afghanistan in a Champions Trophy match, as female participation in sport has effectively been outlawed in Afghanistan since the Tailban returned to power in 2021
Books / 25 May 2025
25 May 2025

PETER MASON is surprised by the bleak outlook foreseen for cricket’s future by the cricketers’ bible

(L) Mudlark kneels on a rocky shore, collecting objects; (R) Medieval pilgrim badge. Pics © London Museum
Exhibitions / 22 April 2025
22 April 2025

PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river

POWER-DRESSING: Miriam Grace Edwards as Mary in Mrs Presiden
Theatre Review / 5 February 2025
5 February 2025
PETER MASON applauds a thought-provoking study of the relationship between a grieving woman and her photographer
CONSTRUCTIVISM FOR KIDS: Ballet Shoes at the National Theatr
Theatre Review / 9 December 2024
9 December 2024
PETER MASON is moved by a striking production of Noel Streatfeild’s enduringly popular children’s book
DOUBLE TAKE: Dominic Semwanga and Megan Keaveney as Fes and
Theatre review / 4 December 2024
4 December 2024
PETER MASON reckons the NYT’s production of Shakespeare’s comedy is the pick of the Christmas shows on offer in London 
FEELING THE CHILL: Le Concert Spiritual play St James Spanis
Music review / 25 November 2024
25 November 2024
PETER MASON shivers in the under-heated ecclesiastical setting of a concert featuring five 19th-century French composers 
Doreene Blackstock and Cash Holland in A Raisin In The Sun
Theatre Review / 15 October 2024
15 October 2024
PETER MASON applauds a classic drama exploring assimilation and resistance among poor black inhabitants of a Chigago slum
Suzy Kohane, Josie Benson and Edith Vernes in French Toast
Theatre review / 9 October 2024
9 October 2024
PETER MASON is disappointed by a clunky comedy that falls flat
Theatre review / 29 August 2024
29 August 2024
PETER MASON is enchanted by a unique take on the Oscar Wilde favourite delivered through the ancient form of marionettes
KEW JUMPING: Fairies in Theatre on Kew's production of Midsu
Theatre review / 30 July 2024
30 July 2024
PETER MASON is unimpressed by an unsubtle production that disregards its woodland setting
 (Left to right) Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado, and An
Motorsport / 14 June 2024
14 June 2024
PETER MASON writes about the exhilarating race which kicks off in France this weekend, and the British drivers competing across three categories
DEFINITIVE: Nick Holder in Faith Healer
Theatre Review / 26 March 2024
26 March 2024
PETER MASON applauds a pitch-perfect production of the late Brian Friel’s compelling study of gullability and disillusion
Crossroads Motel: Liza Sadovy (Mary) and Peter Wight (John)
Theatre Review / 23 October 2023
23 October 2023
PETER MASON is unimpressed by a two-act Elizabethan version of Crossroads
A wonderfully tasteful series of sets
Theatre Review / 19 June 2023
19 June 2023
PETER MASON's overwhelming disappointment is ameliorated by a sumptuous stage settings
NOSTALGIC Tom Carradine in Carradine’s Cockney Sing-a-long
Theatre / 7 March 2023
7 March 2023
PETER MASON submerges into East End nostalgia, and would do it again
(L to R) Reece Shearsmith as Peter, Frances Barber as Elsa,
Theatre / 23 January 2023
23 January 2023
PETER MASON applauds a razor-sharp comedy of manners