Medea Olivia Hurton 24/06/2025Reimagining the classics is no easy task. Yet Satoshi Miyagi, famed Artistic Director of Japan’s SPAC (Shizuoka Performing Arts Center),...
The Merry Widow Owen Davies 24/06/2025This wonderful bit of nonsense was first performed in Austria just before Christmas 1905. It is a Viennese operetta with...
Rodelinda Tim Hochstrasser 23/06/2025Handel’s Rodelinda (1725) was written at the apogee of his operatic career, when Italian opera seria and Handel’s own contributions...
Die Fledermaus Tim Hochstrasser 23/06/2025I always think of this operetta as a show for the end of the year. The action is set on...
54.60 Africa Lara Inglis-Jones 22/06/2025Before his 60th birthday, Femi Elufowoju Jr sets out to visit every country in Africa, a total of 54 at...
Reviewer's rating Press Jad Adams 20/06/2025‘Tell them the truth’ says one character in Press. ‘Which one?’ her companion replies. This play opens with effortlessly confident...
Mazeppa Tim Hochstrasser 19/06/2025It is truly surprising that Mazeppa (1884) is not better known. It is work of Tchaikovsky’s maturity and full of...
Reviewers Rating Toxic and Hermione’s Dinner Julie Peakman 19/06/2025A double bill of plays present questions about the #MeToo movement and rape (Toxic), and the choice to be childfree...
Anna Karenina Tim Hochstrasser 19/06/2025Adapting a novel of the size and range of Anna Karenina is an impossible task. You have to omit scenes...
Reviewers Ratings Lovestuck Julie Peakman 18/06/2025Billed as the ‘Worst.Date.Ever.’, this new musical revolves around the story of a girl on a first date who rescues...
