Dining al Desko Sophie Nevrkla 19/07/2018As I write this review in Brexit Britain, I have one ear on Prime Minister’s Questions. While May and Corbyn...
Reviewer's Rating Fire in Dreamland Austin Fimmano 19/07/2018A woman is standing on a boardwalk, weeping – not the tears of a damsel in distress, but the tears...
Reviewer's Rating Two for the Seesaw Zabrina Lo 18/07/2018Director of Two for the Seesaw Gary Condes summarises his play with three words: love, life and truth. Indeed, the...
Reviewer's Rating Birdsong Mel Cooper 18/07/2018I have a lot of good to say about the acclaimed touring production of Birdsong, but also a major quibble....
Reviewer's Rating Ariadne auf Naxos Mel Cooper 18/07/2018Ariadne auf Naxos is one of the most poetical, intellectual, and musically nuanced of operas, a sophisticate treat. Written by...
Reviewer's Rating Get the Boat Ann Pryor 16/07/2018Ireland recently made global headlines in May with its Yes vote on a referendum to remove the eighth amendment of...
Reviewer's Rating Falstaff Tim Hochstrasser 16/07/2018Verdi’s last opera is a two-fold miracle – of both economy and prodigality. He started with the advantage of Boito’s...
Reviewer's Rating The Lehman Trilogy Tim Hochstrasser 16/07/2018Three brothers, in three acts, and spread over three generations: this is the pattern for Ben Power’s adaptation of Stefano...
Reviewer's Rating Miss Littlewood Mel Cooper 16/07/2018One of the many exciting and interesting things about this new musical, commissioned by the RSC, is how cleverly it...
Reviewer's Rating Ti Vedo, Ti Sento, Mi Perdo Katherine Syer 16/07/2018The life of Alessandro Stradella, the 17th-century composer whose colourful affairs paved the way to his contracted murder, inspired several...
