Beyond the Libretto: How Music Tells Women’s Stories in Opera Rivka Jacobson 03/06/2025Opera Holland Park’s 2025 season opens with Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, closes with Verdi’s La Traviata, and, in between, presents...
Rebellion, Resignation, and Survival in Ibsen, Chekhov, Rattigan, and Williams Rivka Jacobson 21/05/2025In the landscape of modern drama, few figures loom as poignantly as the woman on the verge — poised between...
Reviewer's Rating Scissorhandz Julie Peakman 07/02/2025As we enter the auditorium, Susie Quatro’s ‘Devil Gate Drive’ with its lyrics ‘Come Alive’ is playing and I think...
The Flying Dutchman at the New National Theatre Tokyo Miho Uchida 28/01/2025Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman draws inspiration from the composer’s stormy sea voyage from Riga to London in 1839. In...
Fiddler on the Roof Rivka Jacobson 07/08/2024This production of the musical Fiddler on the Roof grips and moves from start to finish. Fiddler on the Roof...
Rigoletto Yael Shuv 08/07/2024I have a special place in my heart for Rigoletto. This is due to a personal memory. When I was...
Reviewer's Rating Your Lie in April Julie Peakman 06/07/2024Inspired by a novel called A School Frozen in Time, then turned into a popular manga comic, a film and...
In Conversation with Matt Hartley Rhys John Edwards 15/03/2024Rhys John Edwards meets writer Matt Hartley to discuss his latest play The Wife of Cyncoed, currently playing at the...
The Mill at Sonning Rivka Jacobson 23/08/2023‘The Mill at Sonning’ may sound more like a title for a 19-century romantic novel than a name of a...
Professor Jerzy Limon Paul Richards 02/03/2023He was an extraordinary visionary, brilliant scholar, and absolutely charming diplomat. The world is a great deal poorer without him....
