Reviewer's rating Carmen Grimeborn Festival 2022 Owen Davies 12/08/2022 1369The Baseless Fabric company exists to bring theatre and opera to public spaces and to give new audiences the chance...
Reviewer's rating Die Zauberflöte Salzburger Festspiele 2022 Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022 4769For the 2022 Summer Festival, the American stage director Lydia Steier has reworked her 2018 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte...
Reviewer's rating Counting and Cracking Ben Reiss 11/08/2022 1464In Sri Lanka, in July 1983, thousands of Tamil civilians were killed during a week of vicious rioting. This horrific...
Reviewer's rating Il Barbiere di Siviglia Salzburger Festspiele Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022 4488Every exceptional opera performance has at least one scene that continues to resonate in one’s mind for hours and occasionally...
Reviewer's rating Monster Emma Burnell 11/08/2022 1529Monster covers a really tough and difficult topic and does so with enormous humanity and real depth. It views a...
Reviewer's rating Closer Emily Louizou 06/08/2022 1281Closer was first performed 25 years ago – in May 1997. I first saw it in Athens in 2008 and...
South Pacific Julie Peakman 06/08/2022 1281Anyone who is a fan of the film South Pacific approaches a new production with some trepidation. Will it be...
Reviewer's rating Black the Clown Grimeborn Festival 2022 Owen Davies 06/08/2022 1020Opera in Spain was influenced by the Italian tradition that dominated the rest of Europe in the period after 1800....
Reviewer's rating All of Us Emma Burnell 05/08/2022 1334Francesca Martinez’s debut play is full of righteous and well-earned anger that will leave all but those of the stoniest...
Reviewer's rating Dog/Actor Emma Burnell 05/08/2022 1518Stephen Smith is an extraordinary physical actor. The silent first five minutes of Dog (one of two short one-man pieces...