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...
Reviewer's Rating Brokeback Mountain Tim Hochstrasser 23/05/2023Unbelievably, it is getting on for twenty years now since the making of the film of ‘Brokeback Mountain’. Such is...
Reviewer's Rating Leaves of Glass Tim Hochstrasser 16/05/2023This play by Philip Ridley was first shown in 2007 at the Soho Theatre where it was a considerable success...
Reviewer's Rating Jonah – Theme of the Sea Tim Hochstrasser 10/05/2023The centrepiece of this one-off concert was ‘Jonah’, a new oratorio by Ian Fletcher. But the evening as a whole...
Reviewer's Rating The Circle Tim Hochstrasser 09/05/2023Tom Littler’s first outing as the new Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre is very much in the traditions...
Reviewer's Rating Sweeney Todd Tim Hochstrasser 27/04/2023Any call ‘to attend the tale of Sweeney Todd’ summons up Broadway rather than Hoxton; but it was at the...
