The Magic Flute Tim Hochstrasser 07/03/2025In writing opera reviews you often find yourself lamenting the lack of respect or even belief that the director has...
White Rose – the musical Tim Hochstrasser 07/03/2025While the story of the Stauffenberg plot against Hitler’s life in 1944 is well known, other episodes of dissent and...
Reviewers Rating Château Farci Julie Peakman 06/03/2025The Victorian ripped wallpaper, tattered chaise longue and battered leather chairs, sets us up the vision of an old French...
Carmen Miho Uchida 03/03/2025Àlex Ollé’s 2021 production of Carmen has returned to the New National Theatre Tokyo after four years. This interpretation is...
Reviewer's Rating DAS RHEINGOLD Josi Steinfeld 02/03/2025Davide Livermore’s original new production is set in 1940’s and is excitingly visualised by D-Wok’s videos. Sets created with stunning...
Reviewer's Rating Jenůfa Nicole Pezza 02/03/2025Leoš Janáček’s Jenůfa, first performed in 1904, remains one of the most harrowing explorations of shame, sacrifice, and social cruelty...
The Score Sofía Danailov Esteban 01/03/2025Some encounters shape history; others shake the very essence of what it means to create. The Score is both. Brian...
Reviewers Rating Back to The Future Julie Peakman 28/02/2025The opening is everything I expect of a musical with a full-blown cast dancing their hearts out and singing ‘Only...
3.5 The Last Laugh Nicole Pezza 27/02/2025The laughter starts before the jokes even land. It spreads contagiously through the audience, as if some unspoken agreement has...
Otherland Sofia Moran 24/02/2025Chris Bush’s Otherland, currently at the Almeida Theatre, tells the story of Harry and Jo, a couple navigating the breakdown of...
