Reviewer's Rating Snowflakes Tim Hochstrasser 18/04/2023‘Snowflakes’ is a discomfiting but important new play that first ran at the Old Red Lion a couple of years...
Reviewer's Rating Private Lives Tim Hochstrasser 16/04/2023Each generation reworks Coward’s classic 1930 light comedy in its own image. The last time I saw it was twenty years...
Reviewer's Rating Life is a Dream Tim Hochstrasser 14/04/2023Calderón’s ‘Life is a Dream’ (La Vida es Sueño) dates from the second phase of the Golden Age of Spanish...
Reviewer's Rating Akhnaten Tim Hochstrasser 20/03/2023‘Akhnaten’ is the third of Philip Glass’s operas that offer portraits of historical figures significant in the fields of science...
Reviewer's Rating Ballet Black: Pioneers Tim Hochstrasser 10/03/2023This fresh double-bill from Ballet Black introduces two works – ‘Then or Now’, which had a very brief outing ahead...
Reviewer's Rating Dead Man Walking Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2023Jake Heggie’s opera ‘Dead Man Walking’ is a bold contemporary choice for a student conservatory to make, but one that...
Reviewer's Rating Akedah Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2023‘Akedah’, which translates as ‘binding’ is the first full-length play by a writer who has now gone on to later...
Reviewer's Rating The Egyptians Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2023While we take Athenian tragedy as the foundation of so much of what has followed in the Western dramatic tradition,...
Reviewer's Rating Oklahoma! Tim Hochstrasser 03/03/2023This production first saw the light of day at Bard College in 2015 and was most recently reworked at the...
Reviewer's Rating Giulio Cesare Tim Hochstrasser 26/02/2023While there would doubtless be much dispute over which is Handel’s greatest opera, ‘Julius Caesar in Egypt’ can certainly lay...
