The Flying Dutchman Owen Davies 06/02/2025Opera North has built a formidable reputation for creating original and provocative interpretations of opera classics, and their new take...
Death and the King’s Horseman Tom Rutter 06/02/2025First staged in 1976, Death and the King’s Horseman is a fictionalised retelling of events that took place in Nigeria...
Second Best Anna Levitt-Malik. 05/02/2025‘This isn’t the story of how I came second. It’s the story of someone putting me first.’ While the play...
Eine florentinische Tragödie/Gianni Schicchi Miho Uchida 05/02/2025Jun Aguni’s spectacular Florentine double bill, Eine florentinische Tragödie (A Florentine Tragedy) and Gianni Schicchi, made a triumphant return after...
La clemenza di Tito Josi Steinfeld 03/02/2025Mozart was commissioned to compose La Clemenza di Tito, (The Clemency of Titus), in 1791 by impresario Domenico Guardasoni in...
Othello Yael Shuv 03/02/2025Verdi’s 1887 opera, based on Shakespeare’s 1603 play, is a tragedy fueled by jealousy, suspicion, and masculine rage. In today’s...
My Mother’s Funeral: The Show Olivia Hurton 02/02/2025The cost-of-living crisis fills inches of newspaper columns but where is the discussion about the cost of dying? Last year,...
The Flying Dutchman at the New National Theatre Tokyo Miho Uchida 28/01/2025Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman draws inspiration from the composer’s stormy sea voyage from Riga to London in 1839. In...
The Bowie Show Tim Hochstrasser 26/01/2025This was my first visit to the Golder’s Green Hippodrome, a hulking venue the size of the Coliseum, and originally...
Moby Dick Owen Davies 26/01/2025This production – part of the London International Mime Festival – is by the French-Norwegian theatre company, Plexus Polaire. To...
