Penned Up Richard Voyce 16/09/2025Does writing – and in particular playwriting – have the power to transform lives for the better? That’s certainly the...
Lucia di Lammermoor Owen Davies 15/09/2025This bloodthirsty melodrama from Donizetti – a composer at the height of his considerable powers – was first staged in...
A Streetcar Named Desire Yael Shuv 14/09/2025Earlier this year, I visited London and attended the heralded production of A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Paul Mescal as...
Creditors Rivka Jacobson 13/09/2025This 85-minute production of Creditors at the Orange Tree Theatre is a masterclass in intimacy, tension, and the slow poisoning...
Invasive Species Emma Nihill 11/09/2025In her final year at Yale Drama School, actress Maia Novi experienced something stranger than fiction. With pressure mounting and...
Park Theatre Double Bill Tim Hochstrasser 11/09/2025Both these plays, lasting an hour each, take quite dark subject matter in very different directions, the first finding humour,...
How To Date Julie Peakman 10/09/2025Ever been on a bad date? Well, this is a series of the worst hook-ups you can imagine as two...
The Genesis Tim Hochstrasser 07/09/2025While it is quite common these days to encounter a standing ovation at the end of an evening in the...
Reviewer's rating A Midsummer Night’s Dream Jad Adams 07/09/2025A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays through it is rarely performed in its entirety. It...
L’Italiana in Algeri Rossini Opera Festival 2025 Josi Steinfeld 05/09/2025There was already a buzz outside the Teatro Rossini before curtain-up. Fifteen minutes before the performance, an old smoking VW...
