The Standard of Living Tim Hochstrasser 03/10/2026 52J.M. (Maynard) Keynes is hardly an unfamiliar figure, whether as one of the twentieth century’s leading economic theorists, or as...
Blue/Glas Tim Hochstrasser 03/10/2026 53This was my first visit to the new Sadler’s Wells East, a cavernous black box with steeply raked orange seats...
Golden Boy Tim Hochstrasser 18/09/2026 152Clifford Odets is not a widely remembered name or regularly produced playwright and yet this play, when you see it,...
The Mirror Crack’d Tim Hochstrasser 13/09/2026 175I must be one of the very few people in the press night audience who did not actually know the...
The Tempest Tim Hochstrasser 12/09/2026 121It is still something of a mystery why full-blown opera did not take off in London until Handel’s day. Were...
Kimberly Akimbo Tim Hochstrasser 12/09/2026 198It might seem an odd place to begin a review, but the interview in the programme that accompanies Kimberly Akimbo...
Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie Tim Hochstrasser 11/09/2026 117This tried-and-tested show returns to Soho for a short run, and is as rewarding as it ever was. It is...
Holy Fool Tim Hochstrasser 06/09/2026 99Dramatising the life of a composer is an exercise more than usually full of pitfalls. The devotee will be dissatisfied...
The Marshes of Glynn Tim Hochstrasser 24/08/2026 221In this latest addition to the recordings of the major works of Andrew Downes we reach his first two cantatas...
Trouble in Tahiti/The Seven Deadly Sins Tim Hochstrasser 24/08/2026 240Neither of the one-act operas that make up this unusual and compelling double-bill is performed often enough, and both offer...
