Anna Karenina Tim Hochstrasser 19/06/2025 1080Adapting a novel of the size and range of Anna Karenina is an impossible task. You have to omit scenes...
Saul Tim Hochstrasser 11/06/2025 2117As a veteran browser of second-hand bookshops, I grew used to seeing piles of faded old Novello vocal scores of...
Fiddler on the Roof Tim Hochstrasser 06/06/2025 2074The greatest musicals, like the greatest operas, contain worlds within them that can be tapped and taken in many different...
The Queen of Spades Tim Hochstrasser 03/06/2025 2099The Queen of Spades/Pique Dame (1890) is a classic case of where literature and opera part company with independently successful results....
Outpatient Tim Hochstrasser 25/05/2025 834This play had a successful first run in Edinburgh and has made several appearances since. It now comes to London...
Parsifal Tim Hochstrasser 21/05/2025 2333This production is a first in a number of ways. It is the first time Wagner’s final opera has received...
House of Games Tim Hochstrasser 13/05/2025 938With Dealer’s Choice playing at the Donmar, and this production opening at Hampstead, the risks and temptations of gambling are...
The Government Inspector Tim Hochstrasser 03/05/2025 955I am sure no one intended it, but to have the press night of this play fall on the day...
Dealer’s Choice Tim Hochstrasser 01/05/2025 746Dealer’s Choice was Patrick Marber’s debut play back in 1995. It has had several lauded revivals since then, but the question...
Personal Values Tim Hochstrasser 25/04/2025 813What strikes you first about this new play in Hampstead Downstairs is the set. The work of Naomi Dawson, it...
