Janáček’s Brouček – A Rare Comic Gem in Concert Josi Steinfeld 07/05/2025Leoš Janáček’s opera Brouček (meaning “little beetle”) had a notoriously protracted genesis. The composer was determined to adapt the satirical...
My Master Builder Olivia Hurton 06/05/2025Ibsen wrote plays that were constructed like buildings—well-made, multilevelled and erected on the sturdy foundations of social realism. The increasingly...
Krapp’s Last Tape: A Ritual of Becoming Sofía Danailov Esteban 04/05/2025Some plays whisper more than they speak. Krapp’s Last Tape is one of them. Haunting in its restraint, Beckett’s one-man...
Pimpinone Sofia Moran 04/05/2025Georg Philipp Telemann’s Pimpinone, first performed in 1725 as a comic intermezzo between the acts of Handel’s Tamerlano, is a...
The Government Inspector Tim Hochstrasser 03/05/2025I am sure no one intended it, but to have the press night of this play fall on the day...
Dealer’s Choice Tim Hochstrasser 01/05/2025Dealer’s Choice was Patrick Marber’s debut play back in 1995. It has had several lauded revivals since then, but the question...
Ben and Imo Owen Davies 30/04/2025When I first heard about this play I must admit that I thought it might only appeal to those (like...
Romeo and Juliet – A Mirror to the Name and the Heart Sofía Danailov Esteban 26/04/2025In this new production of Romeo and Juliet, presented by Hackney Empire, the eternal war between name and essence is...
Personal Values Tim Hochstrasser 25/04/2025What strikes you first about this new play in Hampstead Downstairs is the set. The work of Naomi Dawson, it...
SOIR NOIR: A Nightclub Confidential Sofia Moran 20/04/2025Set in the warm, candle-lit intimacy of The Crazy Coqs in London, SOIR NOIR: A Nightclub Confidential invites its audience...
