Reviewer's Rating Pacific Overtures Tim Hochstrasser 08/12/2023‘Pacific Overtures’ was written in 1976, during Sondheim’s golden years, just after ‘A Little Night Music’ and before ‘Sweeney Todd’....
Reviewer's Rating Dreaming and Drowning Tim Hochstrasser 05/12/2023The intimate space of the Bush studio theatre is currently home to a fine, taut, piece of new writing by...
Reviewer's Rating Taming Who? Tim Hochstrasser 04/12/2023I have written here before of the remarkable and under-appreciated work done by Inter-Mission Youth Theatre, and their latest production,...
Reviewer's Rating Elégie – Rachmaninov – a heart in exile Tim Hochstrasser 28/11/2023In recent years Lucy Parham has moved beyond her solo pianistic career to create a series of well-regarded ‘Composer Portraits’...
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra: Bartok to Zemlinsky Tim Hochstrasser 26/11/2023Just as in its choice of opera repertory, the Guildhall School prefers to walk on the wilder side of orchestral...
Reviewer's Rating Oh, What A Lovely War! Tim Hochstrasser 25/11/2023It is sixty years now since the first production of ‘Oh, What A Lovely War’, one of the stand-out artistic...
Reviewer's Rating The Mongol Khan Tim Hochstrasser 23/11/2023Epic accounts of Asiatic history, crammed with extravagant dance, music and costumes, sweep through London theatres with some regularity; and...
Reviewer's Rating Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen Tim Hochstrasser 20/11/2023While many shows that succeed at the Edinburgh Fringe later transfer to London, it is by no means certain that...
Reviewer's Rating Respighi: Opera Double Bill Tim Hochstrasser 17/11/2023As so often, the Guildhall School is going where the leading opera houses fear to tread. This term’s opera production...
Reviewer's Rating Made in Chelsea Tim Hochstrasser 13/11/2023It is not often these days that a new comedy arrives that self-consciously models itself on Wilde and Wodehouse. On...
