War and Peace Shadi Seifouri 25/07/2019Celebrated as one of the greatest contributions to the literary canon, Prokofiev’s lauded adaptation of Tolstoy’s 1869 novel War and...
The Tempest Catherine Flutsch 24/07/2019Oxford’s much-loved professional theatre company, Creation Theatre, has a well-deserved reputation for taking risks in the interests of telling a...
Reviewer's Rating Die Fledermaus Owen Davies 24/07/2019The Revenge of the Bat is a better title for this insubstantial piece of Viennese musical farce. Its only claim...
Reviewer's Rating Le Moche Le Festival d’Avignon Marie Communal 24/07/2019One day, Lette’s life turns upside down. This brilliant engineer learns that he is…ugly. Because of this “objective ugliness” upon...
Reviewer's Rating Burnout Le Festival d’Avignon Marie Communal 24/07/2019Before entering the Gilgamesh Belleville, I was very much looking forward to discovering this very current play written by Alexandra...
Reviewer's Rating Lewis versus Alice Le Festival d’Avignon Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 23/07/2019This year, at the Avignon ‘In’ festival, a show with a curious name is presented: it is called Lewis versus...
Reviewer's Rating Autobiography Le Festival d’Avignon Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 23/07/2019This summer, for his first time in Avignon, British choreographer Wayne McGregor presents his Autobiography in the beautiful Cour du...
Reviewer's Rating Two’s A Crowd Gillian Russo 23/07/2019What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas. For better or for worse, sometimes its bright lights, hijinks, and...
Reviewer's rating L’arlesiana Shadi Seifouri 22/07/2019Prior to the success of Adriana Lecouverer, Francesco Cilea’s often neglected opera, L’arlesiana, embodies the emotional complexities of domestic and...
Reviewer's rating Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s MacBeth Ann Pryor 22/07/2019How can playwright Tom Stoppard play with Shakespeare? With words, with time, with a soccer ball (yes, there is one). ...