Tim Hochstrasser is a historian teaching early modern intellectual and cultural history at the LSE. He has a long-standing commitment to the visual, musical and dramatic arts, and opera above all, as a unifying and inspiring vehicle for all of them.
This new play at the Young Vic operates on a number of levels. On the face of it, the play is a family drama woven into a stand-off at a clothing fact...
‘The perfect summer came to pass, but not to stay.’ This line from near the end of Mark Adamo’s contemporary opera captures the key theme of this comi...
One of the most anticipated features of every season at Opera Holland Park is the revived rarity rescued from obscurity. Some fine operas have receive...
After huge success in its first iteration this production of Cole Porter’s Depression-era pick-me-up musical returns to the Barbican with a new cast. ...
In this new play Annie Siddons draws on her own life-experiences in Southeast London to rework ‘The Bacchae’ by Euripides for a contemporary audience....
This new play from Peter Morgan could not be more topical, though to everyone’s credit the lessons and pointers are oblique rather than obvious. The e...
As many readers of this website will know, the Mill at Sonning is a wholly delightful theatre venue. When you are perched in a converted mill over a b...
What more is there to say about ‘Carmen’, most familiar of operas? One answer to that is given in Matthew Bourne’s ballet now showing to great acclaim...
Anyone walking past the Tower of London is probably unaware of the Tower Vaults, a huge underground cellarage on three levels, all that remains of the...
Gecko’s show ‘The Wedding’ was a great success at the Barbican back in 2019 and now returns for a limited run as part of the London Mime Festival, tho...
