Reviewer's Rating Tango After Dark Tim Hochstrasser 13/10/2022I was fortunate enough to review ‘Immortal Tango’ at the Peacock back in 2016, and here the same team present...
Reviewer's Rating Only An Octave Apart Tim Hochstrasser 07/10/2022Fresh from his success in ‘Handel/Glass’, counter-tenor Anthony Roth Costanzo joins pipes with cabaret star Justin Vivian Bond for a...
Reviewer's Rating Clutch Tim Hochstrasser 23/09/2022The Studio at the Bush Theatre currently hosts an hour-long two-hander devoted to driving lessons. Or so it appears. Two...
Reviewer's Rating Antigone Tim Hochstrasser 11/09/2022The season at Regent’s Park closes with a reworking of Sophocles’ Antigone by Inua Ellams. The framework of key familial relationships...
Reviewer's Rating Trump L’oeil Tim Hochstrasser 11/09/2022Donald Trump is an enigma, and rich material for a musical. There have been many attempts to stage his personality,...
Reviewer's Rating Patience Tim Hochstrasser 28/08/2022Charles Court Opera has in a short space of time become the acknowledged master of G&S in small spaces. So...
Reviewer's Rating Chasing Hares Tim Hochstrasser 27/07/2022This new play at the Young Vic operates on a number of levels. On the face of it, the play...
Reviewer's Rating Little Women Tim Hochstrasser 25/07/2022‘The perfect summer came to pass, but not to stay.’ This line from near the end of Mark Adamo’s contemporary...
Reviewer's Rating Double Bill: Margot La Rouge & Le Villi Tim Hochstrasser 25/07/2022One of the most anticipated features of every season at Opera Holland Park is the revived rarity rescued from obscurity....
Reviewer's Rating Anything Goes Tim Hochstrasser 18/07/2022After huge success in its first iteration this production of Cole Porter’s Depression-era pick-me-up musical returns to the Barbican with...