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.
The Bay at Nice was first seen as part of a double bill at the National Theatre back in 1986. Written at the end of the Cold War, it is set in Leningr...
Britten is often thought of as a precocious composer, enjoying a brilliant success as a young man, especially in opera, but with his inspiration gradu...
Among Rossini’s 39 operas ‘Elizabeth, Queen of England’ is unaccountably neglected. It marked perhaps the most important turning point of his life, as...
After successful outings in Amsterdam and at The Vaults, this debut play comes to Islington for almost a month in newly revised form. It offers an amb...
It is fifty years since this still underrated Arthur Miller play was first produced in New York. This play is far less of an obvious symbolic engagem...
Harley Granville-Barker is still known, but not nearly as well-known as he used to – or for that matter should – be. Productions of ‘The Voysey Inheri...
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is running an initiative in this year’s festival in the Waterloo Vaults called ‘Let’s Talk’. The aim is to f...
‘Until the Lions’ was originally designed for performance at the Roundhouse where it experienced notable success in 2016. It is an epic narrative fo...
The story of the knight-errant of La Mancha and his loyal squire is not only one with which we are familiar, but it is also one that has taken up resi...
It is rare for French dramatists to score a series of successes on the London stage, and yet Florian Zeller, aided by the expert translating skills of...
