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.
For two nights the Coliseum has hosted a new musical by the team that brought ‘Broken Wings’ to London three years ago. Many of the points I made in m...
‘Macbeth’ is Shakespeare’s shortest play purely as text and productions often rush past the audience in a blur of whisper and furtive conspiracy, even...
Since 2008 Intermission Youth Theatre (IYT) has built an outstanding reputation for developing the acting talents and skills of young people tradition...
‘Macbeth’ is the first of Verdi’s three settings of Shakespeare’s plays, each of them contrasted and remarkable in their own way. But unlike the last ...
First conceived back in 2016 in what from here seems quite another world, this life-enhancing juke-box musical has travelled successfully around the w...
Opera Holland Park has not gone into its winter hibernation by any means. They are currently streaming a production of William Walton’s little-known a...
Hadar Galron is a screenwriter, playwright, comedienne and actor well known above all for her sympathetic portrayals of Jewish Orthodox women. She sti...
With ‘Six’ and ‘The Mirror and the Light’ running in the West End it is clear that our appetite the Tudors continues unabated; but this is an obsessio...
On entering The Pit you are offered ear plugs and notice that the audience is screened from whatever will happen on the stage with Perspex flaps. This...
Nearly 30 years ago this play won a Pulitzer Prize on Broadway and received a very successful UK premiere at this very theatre in 1985. It was the bre...
