Never Tell Me the Odds Soyoon Koo 14/12/2025Never Tell Me the Odds arrives at the Old Red Lion Theatre as a small and concentrated piece of new...
Wozzeck Miho Uchida 23/11/2025This tragedy-driven opera, based on Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck (1837), tells the story of Wozzeck, a soldier brutally mistreated by the...
Dead Man Walking Soyoon Koo 03/11/2025Jake Heggie’s acclaimed Dead Man Walking debuts in London, demanding attention, compassion, and courage in equal measure. Adapted from Sister...
Anne Boleyn. The Musical Julie Peakman 07/08/2025There can be no doubt this is a spectacular event. Anyone producing a musical lucky enough to have Hever Castle...
From Page to Stage: Yiddish Voices Behind Fiddler on the Roof Rivka Jacobson 08/06/2025In the ferment of 19th-century Eastern Europe, amid the upheavals of empire, migration, and modernity, Jewish writers began to carve...
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...
