Reviewer's rating Waitress Richard McKee 10/09/2021‘Waitress’ may not (yet) have gone the way of ‘actress’, but Waitress has come to Wimbledon with a whoosh. Last...
Reviewer's rating Orfeo and Zanetto Double Bill Owen Davies 08/09/2021Barefoot Opera brought an unusual double bill to Grimeborn at the Arcola. They paired a shortened version of Gluck’s Orfeo...
Reviewer's rating Invisible Me Richard McKee 04/09/2021Sex in the Sixties? Well, that was the decade of sexual liberation (though it rather passed your reviewer by). But...
Reviewer's rating Rockets and Blue Lights Owen Davies 04/09/2021This fascinating and challenging play by Winsome Pinnock starts from ideas stimulated by two paintings by JMW Turner. The first...
Reviewer's rating 13 Musical Rivka Jacobson 03/09/2021This is an energetic and joyous production of Jason Robert Brown’s 13 (Musical). The entire cast and band consists of teenagers. The...
Reviewer's rating Bach & Sons Tim Hochstrasser 02/09/2021There are often good grounds to be wary of plays centred on the lives of historical figures. The balance between...
Reviewer's rating Alcina Owen Davies 01/09/2021As part of the splendid Grimeborn festival put on every summer by the Arcola, Marcio da Silva’s Ensemble Orquestra has...
Reviewer's Rating Islander Becca Kaplan 25/08/2021Islander makes one statement clear almost from the top: white men are fragile. And sometimes there is no greater way...
Reviewer's rating I Capuleti e i Montecchi Yael Shuv 23/08/2021Unlike the more popular Charles Gounod version, Vincenzo Bellini’s opera, recounting the woeful story of Juliet and her Romeo, has...
Reviewer's rating Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno Alessandro Zummo 13/08/2021The acclaimed mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, who has been the artistic director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival since 2012, has presented...
