The Protecting Veil Tim Hochstrasser 30/10/2025How do you make religious mysticism credible in concert performance? This is the challenge in performances of John Tavener’s masterpiece...
Hedda Rivka Jacobson 28/10/2025Tanika Gupta’s Hedda is a bold and intelligent reimagining of Ibsen’s classic, relocated to post-war London in 1948, a city...
Fool’s Gold Lennon Hu 26/10/2025In the current landscape of comedy, the term “irreverent” is placed onto many pieces. It has become a shorthand to...
The Assembled Parties Wilder Gutterson 25/10/2025After a successful Broadway run more than a decade ago, The Assembled Parties by Richard Greenberg has arrived at Hampstead...
Crocodile Fever Olivia Hurton 25/10/2025Crocodile Fever sounds like an infectious virus rather than a play. Its plot – the revenge of two sisters on...
La Bohème Ziyu Zhang 25/10/2025Transposed to Paris’s Jazz Age of the 1920s, André Barbe and Renaud Doucet’s production of La Bohème revives Puccini’s theatrical...
Candide Owen Davies 24/10/2025I first saw this marvellous Welsh National Opera production of Bernstein’s gloriously messy masterpiece in Cardiff in 2023, and I...
Black Sabbath – The Ballet Tim Hochstrasser 24/10/2025This full-length three act ballet first saw the light of day in 2023, when it was a huge and, perhaps,...
The Wanderers Soyoon Koo 24/10/2025What part of you is original, inherited, or pure fiction? In its UK debut at the Marylebone Theatre, Anna Ziegler’s...
The Maids Rivka Jacobson 23/10/2025Kip Williams’ new version of Jean Genet’s The Maids at the Donmar Warehouse propels Genet’s mid-century “hall of mirrors” into...
