Oedipus Olivia Hurton 08/02/2025In the Old Vic’s elemental new production of Oedipus, tragedy is a compulsive dance. The moves are predetermined and age-old:...
Mrs. President Ashvin Vasudeva 08/02/2025Mrs. President seeks to give a voice to Mary Lincoln, the often-overlooked wife of Abraham Lincoln. In doing so, the...
Reviewer's Rating Scissorhandz Julie Peakman 07/02/2025As we enter the auditorium, Susie Quatro’s ‘Devil Gate Drive’ with its lyrics ‘Come Alive’ is playing and I think...
The Flying Dutchman Owen Davies 06/02/2025Opera North has built a formidable reputation for creating original and provocative interpretations of opera classics, and their new take...
Death and the King’s Horseman Tom Rutter 06/02/2025First staged in 1976, Death and the King’s Horseman is a fictionalised retelling of events that took place in Nigeria...
Second Best Anna Levitt-Malik. 05/02/2025‘This isn’t the story of how I came second. It’s the story of someone putting me first.’ While the play...
Eine florentinische Tragödie/Gianni Schicchi Miho Uchida 05/02/2025Jun Aguni’s spectacular Florentine double bill, Eine florentinische Tragödie (A Florentine Tragedy) and Gianni Schicchi, made a triumphant return after...
La clemenza di Tito Josi Steinfeld 03/02/2025Mozart was commissioned to compose La Clemenza di Tito, (The Clemency of Titus), in 1791 by impresario Domenico Guardasoni in...
Othello Yael Shuv 03/02/2025Verdi’s 1887 opera, based on Shakespeare’s 1603 play, is a tragedy fueled by jealousy, suspicion, and masculine rage. In today’s...
My Mother’s Funeral: The Show Olivia Hurton 02/02/2025The cost-of-living crisis fills inches of newspaper columns but where is the discussion about the cost of dying? Last year,...
