Reviewer's rating Uncle Vanya Emma Burnell 07/05/2022*Reviewers note: Press Night for this play was held on the same night as the playoff between Sunderland and Sheffield...
Reviewer's Rating Age of Rage Tim Hochstrasser 07/05/2022Ivo van Hove is touring with his company Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, and comes to the Barbican for a brief residency....
Reviewer's rating Love Is Only Love Richard Voyce 06/05/2022Know what the best thing about reviewing is? Every now and then, if you’re lucky, and the circumstances dictate, you...
Reviewer's Rating Seven Against Edinburgh Ben Reiss 26/04/2022From a new young company of actors comes Seven Against Edinburgh – the story of the first female students to...
Reviewer's Rating The Corn is Green Tim Hochstrasser 25/04/2022Emlyn Williams is an unjustly neglected figure in the history of British theatre. As a writer and actor (on stage...
Reviewer's Rating Lohengrin Tim Hochstrasser 22/04/2022‘Lohengrin’ was Wagner’s first clear masterpiece, but it is all the same an uneasy work, embodying both the culmination of...
Reviewer's rating Les Précieuses Ridicules Pretentious Young Ladies Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 20/04/2022Is 2022 the year the Comédie Française goes camp? With Sébastien Pouderoux and Stéphane Varupenne’s new adaptation of Les Précieuses...
Reviewer's rating The Meaning of Zong Ben Reiss 17/04/2022In a massacre aboard the slave ship Zong – 132 women, men, and children perished in chains in the Caribbean sea in...
Reviewer's rating The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Richard McKee 13/04/2022Like the director of this fabulous production, I first read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when I was...
Reviewer's rating Le nozze di Figaro Yael Shuv 13/04/2022In Don Giovanni, Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte presented their famous hero as a sexual predator rather than...
