Reviewer's Ratings Classical Pride Tim Hochstrasser 10/07/2023Remarkably, this concert in the Barbican Hall was apparently the very first in which a leading orchestra participated front-and-centre with...
Reviewer's Rating Antigone Tim Hochstrasser 08/07/2023This new adaptation by Stef Smith of the Greek classic has a lot going for it but also some significant...
Reviewer's Rating Song From Far Away Tim Hochstrasser 01/07/2023This elegiac but rigorously unsentimental play with music received fine reviews in Manchester at the start of the year and...
Reviewer's Rating Stumped Tim Hochstrasser 29/06/2023‘Stumped’ is one of those plays that works on different levels, and indeed it is that cannily calibrated multi-layered appeal...
Reviewer's Rating The Third Man Tim Hochstrasser 23/06/2023Does every play, film or opera have the potential to become a musical? This is the question posed by the...
Reviewer's Rating The Motive and the Cue Tim Hochstrasser 21/06/2023This new play is both a drama and a documentary. Jack Thorne has taken rehearsal recordings and diary records of...
Reviewer's Rating Assassins Tim Hochstrasser 12/06/2023Fresh from reviewing ‘Gypsy, to which Sondheim contributed the lyrics, and then coming to ‘Assassins’, it is astonishing to see...
Reviewer's Rating Il Trovatore Tim Hochstrasser 05/06/2023‘Il Trovatore’ (‘The Troubadour’) is a work of extremes, in striking contrast to ‘Rigoletto’ and ‘Traviata’ with which it is...
Gypsy Tim Hochstrasser 04/06/2023‘Gypsy’ stands to musicals as ‘Figaro’ does to opera: an indisputable masterpiece of the genre that is simultaneously indestructible yet...
Reviewer's Rating Aspects of Love Tim Hochstrasser 27/05/2023‘Aspects of Love’ was a great success at the back end of the 1980s, helping to make the name of...
