Il Turco in Italia Miho Uchida 08/10/2026 477The New National Theatre Tokyo opens its new season with Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia, a co-production between Madrid’s Teatro...
Giulio Cesare in Egitto Owen Davies 01/09/2026 531Giulio Cesare in Egitto was one of Handel’s great successes. It was first performed in 1724 for the Royal Academy...
Death Note: The Musical Soyoon Koo 14/08/2026 834Death Note: The Musical arrives at the Barbican with comically high expectations. The story follows high-achieving disillusioned student Light Yagami...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Soyoon Koo 02/07/2026 1325“Are we all here?” As Quince asks the inaugural question, the line lands with an arch, modern self-awareness. As the...
Dough Ben Reiss 11/06/2026 10512026 marks the inaugural Jewish Culture Month, a nationwide celebration of almost 1000 years of British-Jewish history. Established by the...
Giulio Cesare Soyoon Koo 10/06/2026 820Arriving at the Grange estate for Giulio Cesare, one feels that the setting is a sprawling, verdant prologue to the...
Reviewers Rating You’ve Gone Quiet Julie Peakman 05/06/2026 1037There is a joke from the 1970s that runs ‘When God created people She put in a joke: She created...
Werther Miho Uchida 01/06/2026 691Massenet’s Werther tells the tale of an unrealised love between a young couple, Werther and Charlotte. The opera opens with...
Reviewers Rating Dark of the Moon Julie Peakman 27/05/2026 1299The original version of this production was a play first performed in 1942 at the University of Iowa and then...
Quartet in Autumn Julie Peakman 21/05/2026 1080 Barbara Pym’s novels are always particularly heart-warming, if a little sad. Author Samantha Harvey has successfully adapted the book...
