Reviewer's Rating Ballet Black: Pioneers Tim Hochstrasser 10/03/2023This fresh double-bill from Ballet Black introduces two works – ‘Then or Now’, which had a very brief outing ahead...
Reviewer's rating Home, I’m Darling Paul Richards 10/03/2023Laura Wade has written a clever, witty play about our fast-moving attitudes towards traditional ideas of work, sex, power, and...
Reviewer's Rating Jumping the Shark Emma Burnell 09/03/2023What’s so funny about that? The opening question of Jumping the Shark is basically ‘can you teach people to be...
Reviewer's rating Lucrezia Borgia Owen Davies 07/03/2023Despite all the noise and nonsense seeping out of the Arts Council about opera funding, it is great to be...
Reviewer's Rating Dead Man Walking Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2023Jake Heggie’s opera ‘Dead Man Walking’ is a bold contemporary choice for a student conservatory to make, but one that...
Reviewer's Rating Akedah Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2023‘Akedah’, which translates as ‘binding’ is the first full-length play by a writer who has now gone on to later...
Reviewer's Rating The Egyptians Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2023While we take Athenian tragedy as the foundation of so much of what has followed in the Western dramatic tradition,...
Reviewer rating Il Viaggio a Reims Josi Steinfeld 06/03/2023Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s last Italian opera (writing in French thereafter), composed for 14 solo voices, premiered in 1825,...
Reviewer rating Truth’s a Dog that Must to Kennel Owen Davies 04/03/2023This stunning short piece by Tim Crouch is reflection on the nature of theatre and the shared values that bring...
Reviewer rating Andrea Chénier, Josi Steinfeld 03/03/2023Umberto Giordano used the true story of the poet Andrea Chénier, guillotined in 1794 aged 32, three days before the...
