Tim Hochstrasser is a historian teaching early modern intellectual and cultural history at the LSE. He has a long-standing commitment to the visual, musical and dramatic arts, and opera above all, as a unifying and inspiring vehicle for all of them.
This gentle, affecting and quietly dignified play is a meditation on the most personal of experiences. Writer Simon Perrott lost his partner, Steve, i...
Ensemble OrQuesta continue their original exploration of the repertory of Baroque opera with something of a coup – the premiere in this country of the...
It is a bold author who seeks to dramatize gender identity at present when cultural divisions run so deep; but in her new play Ruby Thomas dives back ...
Stephen Karam had real success a few years back with his play ‘The Humans’, which like this current offering, enjoyed success in New York before comin...
Matthew Bourne’s version of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ has been with us for a decade, but this revival with a fresh cast is as impressive as ever, establishing...
This year’s choice for the Guildhall School’s main winter drama is a classic twentieth-century American drama, Thornton Wilder’s epic portrait of loca...
The 1946 Frank Capra film ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ was not a success when new, but has since become an indispensable part of Christmas, adapted success...
This new play by Frank McGuinness began life in Ireland to mark the twentieth anniversary of the b*spoke theatre company, and now it travels to Belfas...
On the face of it, Handel operas should not work. Bafflingly complicated plots and a long series of ‘Da Capo’ arias where the opening section repeats ...
For sixteen years now Intermission Youth Theatre has done what theatre at its best should always do – change lives. Under the inspiring leadership of ...