A Midsummer Night’s Dream Soyoon Koo 02/07/2026“Are we all here?” As Quince asks the inaugural question, the line lands with an arch, modern self-awareness. As the...
Springwood Tim Hochstrasser 01/07/2026When did it become the fashion to ring the changes on play or a film so that each has to...
To Kill a Mockingbird Lara Inglis-Jones 01/07/2026Few novels carry the cultural weight of To Kill a Mockingbird, making any stage adaptation a formidable challenge. Harper Lee’s...
Archduke Tim Hochstrasser 29/06/2026Many writers take their cue from historical events, but Rajiv Joseph’s spin on history is a consistently interesting one. In...
Cyrano de Bergerac Wilder Gutterson 29/06/2026There is little more satisfying than falling under the spell of a theatre production that is both entertaining and emotionally...
The Chocolate Soldier Tim Hochstrasser 29/06/2026Given Shaw’s antipathy towards musical theatre, it is ironic that three of the great musicals of the twentieth century were...
In the Belly of the Beast Tim Hochstrasser 29/06/2026Though running for little over an hour, this programme of three Biblical cantatas by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre was...
The Barber of Seville Tim Hochstrasser 28/06/2026If Don Carlo is a full-bodied Rioja, then Il Barbiere di Siviglia is the crispiest of prosecco, and on the hottest...
Grindr The Opera! Richard Voyce 27/06/2026Grindr The Opera!, the two-act riff on the gay dating app named in the title, is billed as “the unauthorised...
Sting Wilder Gutterson 25/06/2026Sadly, the news has lately been full of stories about women abused and murdered by men, often men in positions...
