Parsifal Tim Hochstrasser 21/05/2025This production is a first in a number of ways. It is the first time Wagner’s final opera has received...
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...
The Government Inspector Tim Hochstrasser 03/05/2025I am sure no one intended it, but to have the press night of this play fall on the day...
Dealer’s Choice Tim Hochstrasser 01/05/2025Dealer’s Choice was Patrick Marber’s debut play back in 1995. It has had several lauded revivals since then, but the question...
Personal Values Tim Hochstrasser 25/04/2025What strikes you first about this new play in Hampstead Downstairs is the set. The work of Naomi Dawson, it...
Stiletto Tim Hochstrasser 04/04/2025Stiletto is set in the Venice of the 1730s, the era of Casanova and Canaletto. While there is certainly glamour and...
Out of the Deep Tim Hochstrasser 28/03/2025Vache Baroque is a relatively new professional group aimed at attracting a younger audience for Baroque music. They aim to...
Bechstein Trio – Fauré, Beethoven, Mendelssohn Tim Hochstrasser 24/03/2025When the Bechstein Hall opened, it did so with a resident Trio in place comprising Emmanuel Despax, Guy Johnston, and...
Men’s Business Tim Hochstrasser 22/03/2025This new production at the Finborough offers a fresh translation by Simon Stephens of a German play of 1972 by...
African Concert Series – Aisha Syed-Castro Tim Hochstrasser 17/03/2025Saturday afternoons at Wigmore Hall are often quiet and fairly conventional affairs, but not in the hands of violinist Aisha...