Reviewers Rating The Frogs Julie Peakman 30/05/2025This is a comedy so funny it has lasted more than two thousand years. Aristophanes wrote the original in 405BC...
Outpatient Tim Hochstrasser 25/05/2025This play had a successful first run in Edinburgh and has made several appearances since. It now comes to London...
Shucked Anna Levitt-Malik. 23/05/2025A new musical has cropped up at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and I’m all shucked up about it! On...
The Deep Blue Sea Olivia Hurton 22/05/2025Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea would make rich material for the column of an agony aunt as much as...
Manon Olivia Hurton 31/05/2025The Opéra Bastille is a late postmodern strongbox for storytelling. Behind its brutalist façade of glass and exposed concrete lies...
The Deep Blue Sea Olivia Hurton 22/05/2025Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea would make rich material for the column of an agony aunt as much as...
The Rape of Lucrece Olivia Hurton 17/05/2025If Shakespeare were alive in 2025, would he be a songwriter? The Rape of Lucrece at Wilton’s Music Hall certainly...
House of Games Tim Hochstrasser 13/05/2025With Dealer’s Choice playing at the Donmar, and this production opening at Hampstead, the risks and temptations of gambling are...
Manon Olivia Hurton 31/05/2025The Opéra Bastille is a late postmodern strongbox for storytelling. Behind its brutalist façade of glass and exposed concrete lies...
Il Barbiere di Siviglia Miho Uchida 26/05/2025Josef E. Köpplinger’s lively and imaginative production of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia returns to the New National Theatre Tokyo...
Ariadne auf Naxos Yael Shuv 22/05/2025Richard Strauss’s 1912 opera is an exceptionally unconventional work of musical theatre, posing a considerable challenge for any director. It...
Reviewer's Rating A Streetcar Named Desire Austin Fimmano 28/03/2025The scene has been set for director Rebecca Frecknall’s A Streetcar Named Desire to dazzle New York. After a sweep...
Rebellion, Resignation, and Survival in Ibsen, Chekhov, Rattigan, and Williams Rivka Jacobson 21/05/2025In the landscape of modern drama, few figures loom as poignantly as the woman on the verge — poised between...
Reviewer's Rating Scissorhandz Julie Peakman 07/02/2025As we enter the auditorium, Susie Quatro’s ‘Devil Gate Drive’ with its lyrics ‘Come Alive’ is playing and I think...
Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Ty Jones Looks to the Future Austin Fimmano 11/05/2025On the evening of Friday, May 2nd, arts groups across the country received a jarring email: their grant money, allocated...
Power, Wit and Baroque: Sophie Gilpin on Her Bold New Pimpinone Rivka Jacobson 29/04/2025As part of the Jette Parker Artists Programme, director Sophie Gilpin tackles a rarely staged Baroque comedy — reframing its...
