Reviewer's Rating Vanessa Tim Hochstrasser 10/08/2018Samuel Barber’s Vanessa (1958) is a work at once accessible and elusive, and a successful production revolves around breaking down...
Reviewer's Rating Rita and L’Heure Espagnole Owen Davies 09/08/2018The Grimeborn opera season at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston has seen double bills from Opera Alegria before. This year...
Reviewer's Rating Sacrifice Nicole Kent 09/08/2018Ardent Theatre Company, established by creative directors Mark Sands and Andrew Muir, provides artistic support to recent graduates who have...
Reviewer's Rating Vicki and Pat in Fuerteventura Richard McKee 09/08/2018Your reviewer had never heard of Fuerteventura, but it turns out to be a holiday resort in the Canary Islands,...
Reviewer's Rating Waiting for Godot Ben Reiss 07/08/2018Samuel Beckett’s transformational and radical play, Waiting for Godot, is a key part of the global theatrical canon. Performed countless...
Reviewer's Rating Summer Shorts Series B Colin Macdonald 06/08/2018If there’s a thread that runs through the Summer Shorts (Series B) at 59E59, presented by Throughline Artists, it’s the...
Reviewer's Rating The Daughter of the Regiment Owen Davies 04/08/2018Opera Della Luna has an admirable track record of revitalising old comic operas. Its guiding spirit, Jeff Clarke, has taken...
Reviewer's Rating The Boatswain’s Mate Owen Davies 04/08/2018The Grimeborn opera season at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston always throws up some fascinating curiosities – this charming comic...
Reviewer's Rating Broken Wings Tim Hochstrasser 03/08/2018Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese prose-poet, is still little known in the West despite the fact that his writings, in both...
Reviewer's Rating The Beyoncé Ben Odom 03/08/2018Eliza Bent’s “The Beyonce” is likely to excite fans of both Chekhov and intimate theater. The set (designed by Sam...