The Trumpeter Tim Hochstrasser 17/07/2024One of my abiding memories of visiting Russia at the turn of the century is the small bands of musicians...
Samson Alessandro Zummo 16/07/2024In 1733, the great philosopher Voltaire and the renowned composer Jean-Philippe Rameau created an opera inspired by the Bible (Book...
Carlos Acosta’s Carmen Tim Hochstrasser 15/07/2024This full-length show has its origins in a single act version that Carlos Acosta devised as part of his retirement...
5 star Slave Play Wilder Gutterson 15/07/2024Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play, at the Noel Coward Theatre on St Martin’s Lane, is an audacious exploration of the...
Animal Farm and 1984 Hattie Bolchover 14/07/2024As a North Londoner, I rarely cross the River Thames, but I was glad to find myself in a cool...
Antonio Pappano: My Life In Music Rivka Jacobson 13/07/2024Antonio Pappano’s autobiography, “My Life In Music,” offers an engaging and insightful journey through the life of one of the...
Grud Sofia Moran 13/07/2024Alcoholism is a tide that rips through families, bringing silent suffering not just to the addict but to those around...
Visit from and Unknown Woman Hafiza Butt 13/07/2024Decades before ‘Bridgerton’, Peter Brook taught us that the stories we tell on stage and film can be colour blind....
Pelléas et Mélisande Alessandro Zummo 12/07/2024Katie Mitchell’s production of Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is an absolute masterpiece. This is a revival of the 2016...
Tosca Rivka Jacobson 11/07/2024The revival of Jonathan Kent’s 2006 production of Puccini’s Tosca (this is the 17th revival!), delivers once again, a compelling...