Frida, Diego, and the Day of the Dead: Green-Wood Cemetery, Death of Classical, and the Metropolitan Opera Collaborate
The Name Hafiza Butt 23/05/2026There is a reason why Simon Usher is one of our finest stage directors, and it’s not just his intelligence,...
Breaking Convention 2026 Hafiza Butt 06/05/2026Sadler’s Wells never disappoints. Its shows often reach the pinnacle of “great”, and if not great, they are always, in...
Choir Boy Hafiza Butt 02/04/2026Tarrell Alvin McCraney, Chair of Playwriting at Yale, Academy Award winner for co-writing the screenplay of his play ‘Moonlight’, is,...
Mama Goose Hafiza Butt 30/11/2025We do a lot of panto. Last year I think we did three. Out of all the panto we see,...
Thikra: Night of Remembering Hafiza Butt 03/11/2025Akram Khan’s ‘ Desh’ (2011) was one of the best productions of anything ( dance, theatre, opera), I’ve ever seen....
Girl from the North Country Hafiza Butt 10/07/2025Girl from the North Country redefines what musical theatre can be. It’s such a smashing idea that the only surprise...
Storehouse: Truth Lies Here Hafiza Butt 14/06/2025The idea of ‘Storehouse: Truth Lies Here’, playing at the Storehouse in Deptford, fascinated me: the collection, an archive of all...
Compañía Mercedes Ruiz Romancero del Baile Flamenco Hafiza Butt 05/06/2025The revelation of love is that nothing else matters—not even the capitulation of the other. To love greatly is, of...
Reviewer's Rating Our Mothers’ Daughters Hafiza Butt 11/03/2025I’d travel quite a distance to see a Hanna Berrigan play, though this one is on my door-step. Berrigan is...
Radioactive Practice Hafiza Butt 22/10/2024‘Radioactive Practice’ is an incredibly difficult piece to review, not because it was bad; it wasn’t, but because there is...
