Reviewer's rating Carmen Grimeborn Festival 2022 Owen Davies 12/08/2022The Baseless Fabric company exists to bring theatre and opera to public spaces and to give new audiences the chance...
Reviewer's rating Die Zauberflöte Salzburger Festspiele 2022 Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022For the 2022 Summer Festival, the American stage director Lydia Steier has reworked her 2018 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte...
Reviewer's rating Counting and Cracking Ben Reiss 11/08/2022In Sri Lanka, in July 1983, thousands of Tamil civilians were killed during a week of vicious rioting. This horrific...
Reviewer's rating Il Barbiere di Siviglia Salzburger Festspiele Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022Every exceptional opera performance has at least one scene that continues to resonate in one’s mind for hours and occasionally...
Reviewer's rating Monster Emma Burnell 11/08/2022Monster covers a really tough and difficult topic and does so with enormous humanity and real depth. It views a...
Reviewer's rating Closer Emily Louizou 06/08/2022Closer was first performed 25 years ago – in May 1997. I first saw it in Athens in 2008 and...
South Pacific Julie Peakman 06/08/2022Anyone who is a fan of the film South Pacific approaches a new production with some trepidation. Will it be...
Reviewer's rating Black the Clown Grimeborn Festival 2022 Owen Davies 06/08/2022Opera in Spain was influenced by the Italian tradition that dominated the rest of Europe in the period after 1800....
Reviewer's rating All of Us Emma Burnell 05/08/2022Francesca Martinez’s debut play is full of righteous and well-earned anger that will leave all but those of the stoniest...
Reviewer's rating Dog/Actor Emma Burnell 05/08/2022Stephen Smith is an extraordinary physical actor. The silent first five minutes of Dog (one of two short one-man pieces...