Reviewer's rating Romeo & Juliet Tim Hochstrasser 11/10/2021The Royal Ballet returns with a bang to Covent Garden with its much-loved production of Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’, first...
Reviewer's rating The Mirror and the Light Tim Hochstrasser 09/10/2021The stage version of Hilary Mantel’s first two novels on the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell was the theatrical...
Reviewer's rating The Normal Heart Tim Hochstrasser 01/10/2021Larry Kramer’s ‘The Normal Heart’ (1985) is recognised as one of the most influential plays to come out of the...
Reviewer's rating Jenůfa Tim Hochstrasser 29/09/2021Jenůfa (1904) is Janáček’s first mature opera, but still underperformed in comparison with the five masterpieces that follow it. Though...
Reviewer's rating Piazzolla Project Tim Hochstrasser 17/09/2021This year’s Grimeborn festival came to an end on Sunday with an uplifting survey of the career and work of...
Reviewer's rating Bach & Sons Tim Hochstrasser 02/09/2021There are often good grounds to be wary of plays centred on the lives of historical figures. The balance between...
Reviewer's rating The Pirates of Penzance Tim Hochstrasser 05/08/2021This is altogether a fine era for ‘G&S’. The tired and fusty productions of the D’Oyly Carte era are a...
Reviewer's rating Die Walküre Tim Hochstrasser 05/08/2021Back in 2019 Grimeborn began its exploration of Wagner’s Ring cycle with the inspired idea of reviving the reduced-scale version...
Reviewer's rating My Night with Reg Tim Hochstrasser 02/08/2021This tragicomedy from 1994 is set in the early 1980s as the impact of HIV/AIDS becomes felt in the London gay...
Reviewer's rating L’amico Fritz Tim Hochstrasser 31/07/2021We are very familiar with Mascagni’s first opera ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’, from whose successful shadow he strove in vain to escape...
