The Rat Trap Tim Hochstrasser 05/02/2026This new-old play turned out to be an unexpected suprise. I thought I knew the Coward-canon all the way through,...
American Psycho Olivia Hurton 04/02/2026Rupert Goold’s thirteen-year tenure as artistic director of the Almeida Theatre in Islington has seen it transform into a leading...
Mozart’s Requiem: Listening Back to Da Ponte’s Lost World Rivka Jacobson 31/01/2026During the Barbican performance of Mozart’s Requiem, there was a moment — brief and unanticipated — when the music unsettled...
Bigre/’FishBowl’ Tim Hochstrasser 30/01/2026The test of a great mime show is not that you don’t need the words but rather when you realise...
Aida Nicole Pezza 29/01/2026Aida is one of those operas that must elicit an immediate ‘wow’ effect; a good production is one that delivers...
Eugene Onegin Olivia Hurton 29/01/2026When Tchaikovsky set himself the task of adapting Pushkin’s verse novel Eugene Onegin into an opera, he had clear ideas...
Die Walküre Josi Steinfeld 29/01/2026In 2025, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the Royal Opera and Ballet each launched new Ring cycles with Das Rheingold....
Cosi fan Tutte Tim Hochstrasser 27/01/2026Of all three collaborations between Mozart and Da Ponte this opera is perhaps the most tricky to bring off successfully...
Tell Me Tim Hochstrasser 26/01/2026When I am in Tate Modern I often stand in front of a painting by Mondrian and experiment with my...
Reviewer's rating Beautiful Little Fool Jad Adams 25/01/2026The scene is set with an archive with walls of books, papers, boxes and table lamps. Here Scottie Fitzgerald, daughter...
