4 & 9 Hafiza Butt 29/05/2019Paintings of bodies may capture the lushness, frailty and decay of flesh. But if vitality means to be in motion...
Reviewer's Rating Amelie the Musical Phil Setren 29/05/2019Based on the popular Oscar nominated Film, Amelie is the musical telling of a young French woman who creates intricate...
Reviewer's Rating The Duchess (of Malfi) Ben Reiss 29/05/2019The Duchess (of Malfi) is writer/director Zinnie Harris’ modern take on John Webster’s bloody Jacobean revenge tragedy. It tells of...
Reviewer's Rating The Importance of Being Earnest Mel Cooper 29/05/2019The new production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at the Watermill Theatre near Newbury is another success...
Reviewer's Rating Andrea Chénier Tim Hochstrasser 28/05/2019When this opera had its first performance at La Scala in 1896 the ‘verismo’ style of operatic writing was at...
Reviewer's Rating The Damnation of Faust Tim Hochstrasser 28/05/2019‘La damnation de Faust’ is, even by Berlioz’ standards, an odd work. Neither opera nor oratorio, but a self-styled ‘dramatic...
Reviewer's Rating Feral Dylan Hoffman 28/05/2019Feral opens with the tamest of images: a man walks on stage and, with a black sharpie, draws a stick...
Reviewer's Rating August: Osage County Abigail Bryant 28/05/2019Set at the peak of summer within the unair-conditioned confines of Bev & Violet Weston’s dilapidated country home, Tracy Letts’...
reviewer's rating Phaedra Rivka Jacobson 28/05/2019This concert-opera (konzertoper) piece must be heard a number of times before one can grasp some of the music’s intricate...
Reviewer's Rating Posting Letters to the Moon Ann Pryor 26/05/2019If master documentarian Ken Burns were to fashion a look into British life during World War II, as told in...
