Reviewer's Rating Merrily We Roll Along Tim Hochstrasser 26/08/2023‘Merrily We Roll Along’ represents a crucial hinge in Sondheim’s career between the impeccable series of hits he enjoyed with...
Reviewer's Rating A Mirror Tim Hochstrasser 24/08/2023When you arrive at the Almeida the foyer and the theatre are decked out for a wedding – flowers in...
Reviewer's Rating How The Other Half Loves Tim Hochstrasser 19/08/2023Back at the Mill at Sonning on a languorous, late-summer afternoon it is time for Ayckbourn, and ‘How The Other...
Reviewer's Rating The Arc Tim Hochstrasser 18/08/2023Emanate is a new theatre company that seeks to showcase new plays that loosely embrace and touch upon Jewish themes....
Reviewer's Rating Makeshifts and Realities Tim Hochstrasser 16/08/2023The Finborough Theatre has for many years made the case for neglected drama from the Edwardian Era, particularly plays associated...
Reviewer's Rating Trouble in Tahiti Tim Hochstrasser 11/08/2023‘Trouble in Tahiti’ is a good fit for scheduling at Grimeborn. A not-so-well-known one-act opera by Leonard Bernstein deserves another...
Reviewer's Rating The Sphere of Light Tim Hochstrasser 08/08/2023Hever Castle, childhood home of Ann Boleyn, hosts a theatre festival every year, and it therefore is a natural ambience...
Reviewer's Rating Romeo and Juliet Tim Hochstrasser 07/08/2023I am fortunate to have seen Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet three times now – back in 2019 for the...
Reviewer's Rating Opera in Song – Vissi d’Arte Tim Hochstrasser 03/08/2023At the centre of Opera Holland Park’s season each year now is a charming and absorbing three-concert interlude that explores...
Reviewer's Rating No For An Answer Tim Hochstrasser 02/08/2023‘There are Bernsteins and Blitzsteins, And flop Steins and hit Steins’, sings Mama Rose in ‘Gypsy’. Well, we all know...