The Oresteia Olivia Hurton 16/07/2026The Ancient Greeks knew all about terrible families. They thought nothing of offering their audiences blood-soaked revenges of dynastic dysfunction...
1000 (Millennia) Soyoon Koo 14/07/2026Before the Almeida was a theatre, it was a monastery, a pub, a scientific society hub. Could it one day...
Songs of the Bulbul Hafiza Butt 13/07/2026Aakash Odedra’s ‘Songs of the Bulbul’ is a truly remarkable show; a comprehensive exploration of that most ephemeral of things:...
Die Frau ohne Schatten Alessandro Zummo 12/07/2026Die Frau ohne Schatten (The woman without a shadow) is the fifth and most ambitious collaboration between Richard Strauss and...
Lear Ziyu Zhang 11/07/2026Shakespeare’s King Lear becomes a family tragedy first and a political one second in this modern adaptation. Reimagining Lear as...
Accabadora Alessandro Zummo 10/07/2026The Sardinian word accabadora comes from the root of the Spanish verb acabar, “to finish,” and denotes the woman who...
Reviewer's rating Portrait of a Tom as a Young Neenan Jad Adams 10/07/2026Tom Neenan is a writer who through Covid redirected his creativity into portrait painting. Here in a one-man show he...
Die Zauberflöte Alessandro Zummo 09/07/2026Mozart’s final opera, premiered at the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna on 30 September 1791 just weeks before his...
Reviewer's rating Richard III Jad Adams 09/07/2026Billed as ‘a visceral, dark tale of ambition’, this production gives that and then some. Richard III is one of...
Requiem Alessandro Zummo 08/07/2026Mozart’s Requiem is inseparable from the mythology of its own making. Composed in the shadow of the composer’s death in...
