Grace Pervades Olivia Hurton 02/05/2026To anyone not versed in the annals of theatre history, upon hearing the title of David Hare’s latest play Grace...
Entertaining Murder Lara Inglis-Jones 29/04/2026Fringe theatre is at its best when it understands its limits. Entertaining Murder, playing at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, does...
Firewing Tim Hochstrasser 28/04/2026This is David Pearson’s first play, and an accomplished piece of work. He has a natural ear for dialogue, with...
Ifigenia in Tauride Tim Hochstrasser 27/04/2026This new recording from Les Talens Lyriques and Christoph Rousset, recorded last year at the Festwochen der Alten Musik in...
The Price Rivka Jacobson 25/04/2026There is something quietly revealing about a production that only truly comes alive in its second half. Arthur Miller’s The...
The Wooster Group: Nayatt School Redux Wilder Gutterson 23/04/2026Leaving the theatre after the Wooster Group’s production of Nayatt School Redux, I overheard numerous audience members wrestling with the...
Two Halves of Guinness Tim Hochstrasser 23/04/2026This remarkable one-man show celebrates and excavates the life and career of Sir Alec Guinness. Of all that generation of...
Salome Owen Davies 22/04/2026Richard Strauss composed some of the most beautiful operatic music for the female voice. Salome, his first big success, dating...
Twice A Kiss Tim Hochstrasser 22/04/2026Outside Cambridge, where he was a leading figure in the musical firmament for some thirty years, the name of Peter...
Between the River and The Sea Wilder Gutterson 21/04/2026As an Arab Christian who grew up in Israel as part of the country’s Palestinian minority, Yousef Sweid embodies a...
