Reviewer's Rating Sons of the Prophet Tim Hochstrasser 13/12/2022Stephen Karam had real success a few years back with his play ‘The Humans’, which like this current offering, enjoyed...
Reviewer's rating Othello Emily Louizou 12/12/2022I still remember going to the National to watch Nicholas Hytner’s production of Othello for the Olivier stage. Almost ten...
Reviewer's Rating Sleeping Beauty – A Gothic Romance Tim Hochstrasser 09/12/2022Matthew Bourne’s version of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ has been with us for a decade, but this revival with a fresh cast...
Harry’s Christmas Emma Burnell 09/12/2022Christmas can be a difficult time of the year to be alone. Everything seems designed to highlight your loneliness –...
Alice in Wonderland Julie Peakman 09/12/2022When eleven year old Alice has an argument with her mum on the platform at Brixton tube station she jumps...
Reviewer's rating Mamma Mia! Mel Cooper 08/12/2022The success of the hit show Mamma Mia! comes, I believe, from the fact that it is not just another...
Reviewer's rating Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Richard McKee 08/12/2022Heigh ho, heigh ho – it’s off to work I go, writing this review. But it’s more pleasure than work. ...
Reviewer's Rating Our Town Tim Hochstrasser 08/12/2022This year’s choice for the Guildhall School’s main winter drama is a classic twentieth-century American drama, Thornton Wilder’s epic portrait...
Reviewer's rating The Makropulos Affair Mel Cooper 04/12/2022The brand new production by the Welsh National Opera of Janáček penultimate opera, The Makropulos Affair, is, quite simply, a...
Reviewer's rating The Wind in the Wilton’s Richard Voyce 03/12/2022If there’s a more joyous, more life-affirming, and more loveable family show than The Wind in the Wilton’s happening anywhere...