Reviewer's rating The Barber of Seville Miho Uchida 11/03/2022Michael Shell’s production of The Barber of Seville contains more farces than usual, perhaps an attempt of the Atlanta Opera...
Reviewer's rating The Scent of Roses Ben Reiss 11/03/2022The Scent of Roses opens with Neve McIntosh’s Luci calmly informing her husband Chris (Peter Forbes) that she has locked...
Reviewer's rating Sheila’s Island Ben Reiss 06/03/2022Take four ‘business executives from the Salford Pennine Water Company’, strand them on an island in the middle of Derwent...
Reviewer's Rating The Telephone & Miss Fortune Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2022There are obvious attractions behind offering a double-bill for the Spring opera slot at the Guildhall: a variety of mood...
Reviewer's Rating Beautiful Man Abigail Bryant 04/03/2022Friday evening, glass of wine in hand, what an exciting novelty it feels to take a seat in a full...
Reviewer's Rating Pagliacci Yael Shuv 04/03/2022Before it all started, the big screen in front of the stage turned blue and yellow. With it a message...
Reviwer's Rating MIMMA: a Musical of War and Friendship Julie Peakman 02/03/2022My first surprise was that this is not the usual musical theatre I am used to, but more of an...
Reviewer's Rating Proud Tim Hochstrasser 01/03/2022‘Proud’ is adapted by Bren Gosling from his novel depicting the interactions between three characters in contemporary London. Roland is...
Reviewer's Rating The Collaboration by Anthony McCarten Tim Hochstrasser 25/02/2022I was really excited to see The Collaboration for completely selfish reasons. In another life, I stage-managed a beautiful show...
Reviewer's Rating Prayer for the French Republic Joshua Bolchover 24/02/2022Joshua Harmon sets out to question our relationships to home, family, and religion. What would we do when we must...