Crocodile Fever Olivia Hurton 25/10/2025Crocodile Fever sounds like an infectious virus rather than a play. Its plot – the revenge of two sisters on...
La Bohème Ziyu Zhang 25/10/2025Transposed to Paris’s Jazz Age of the 1920s, André Barbe and Renaud Doucet’s production of La Bohème revives Puccini’s theatrical...
Candide Owen Davies 24/10/2025I first saw this marvellous Welsh National Opera production of Bernstein’s gloriously messy masterpiece in Cardiff in 2023, and I...
Black Sabbath – The Ballet Tim Hochstrasser 24/10/2025This full-length three act ballet first saw the light of day in 2023, when it was a huge and, perhaps,...
The Wanderers Soyoon Koo 24/10/2025What part of you is original, inherited, or pure fiction? In its UK debut at the Marylebone Theatre, Anna Ziegler’s...
The Maids Rivka Jacobson 23/10/2025Kip Williams’ new version of Jean Genet’s The Maids at the Donmar Warehouse propels Genet’s mid-century “hall of mirrors” into...
Lessons on Revolution Wilder Gutterson 23/10/2025The student protests at the London School of Economics (LSE) in the late 1960s form the basis for Lessons on...
Tosca Owen Davies 21/10/2025Tosca is an opera that has all the hallmarks of Puccini at his tear-jerking best. It has a story with...
Fanny Owen Davies 20/10/2025This fascinating play by Calum Finlay, first staged at the Watermill Theatre Newbury, tells the story of Fanny Mendelssohn, younger...
Overwhelm Wilder Gutterson 20/10/2025The plight of millennial men ill-equipped to navigate modern life has become familiar territory for magazine articles and TV dramas...
