Albert Herring Tim Hochstrasser 15/10/2025Britten never repeated himself in his operas – each is a distinct and different entity in one and manner. It...
Carmen Olivia Hurton 11/10/2025This year marks Carmen’s 150th birthday. When it first premiered at the Opera-Comique in March 1875, the audience were primed...
La Bohème – In Space! Josi Steinfeld 10/10/2025Claus Guth’s once-controversial, space-set Bohème returns to Paris to a packed, euphoric house. What felt scandalous in 2017 now reads...
Aida Josi Steinfeld 09/10/2025Opéra Bastille — Paris’s second opera house and a 1989 state-of-the-art building with superb acoustics — is literally crumbling. The...
Mary Page Marlowe Wilder Gutterson 09/10/2025For the second time since 2008, the Old Vic has transformed its proscenium stage into a theatre-in-the-round. The inaugural play...
Born With Teeth Wilder Gutterson 08/10/2025A recent theory among Shakespeare scholars that the Bard (Edward Bluemel) and Christopher Marlowe (Ncuti Gatwa) may have collaborated on...
Reviewer's rating Ghost Stories Jad Adams 08/10/2025In the programme for Ghost Stories we are given a glimpse of what to expect: spooks, haunted theatres, magic tricks...
Lee Tim Hochstrasser 06/10/2025I tend to view plays about creativity or the artistic process with a degree of trepidation. Either they have something...
(the) Woman Tim Hochstrasser 05/10/2025This striking new play takes on a huge and well traversed subject – the trials and tribulations of motherhood –...
R:Evolution Tim Hochstrasser 05/10/2025English National Ballet return to Sadler’s Wells with a well balanced programme that would be a wonderful introduction to the...
