Maria de Rudenz Owen Davies 06/11/2024Famed as Donizetti’s greatest flop after its premier in Venice in 1838, Maria de Rudenz is given a rare production...
The Pirates of Penzance Richard Voyce 06/11/2024What a cast! What a score! What a production! What am I talking about? Lloyd Webber’s latest hit? A flashy...
Burnt-Up Love Marc Berman 06/11/2024The opening of Burnt-Up Love at the Finborough Theatre delves into the visceral, sometimes morally ambiguous dimensions of parental love....
Reviewers Rating MASO SCHISM Julie Peakman 06/11/2024Two young women are working out in a gym, causing and feeling pain, but in a good way. Katie and...
Opera Rara: Donizetti & Friends Tim Hochstrasser 05/11/2024Opera Rara won the award for ‘best record label’ at the last Gramophone awards, and on the strength of this latest...
Barcelona Olivia Hurton 05/11/2024For those in search of a holiday, Bess Wohl’s Barcelona – a tale of sun, sadness and suspicious strangers – offers only the...
The Other Place Wilder Gutterson 03/11/2024There is a minute-long stretch during The Other Place when all the actors have vacated the stage, and we are...
The Buddha of Suburbia Olivia Hurton 02/11/2024Emma Rice’s RSC adaptation of The Buddha of Suburbia proves that the story of Karim Amir, a mixed-race teenager longing for...
Reviwers Rating The Luminous Julie Peakman 02/11/2024The lights come up on a woman who enters, sits down and speaks to someone we cannot see. This unseen...
Review Rating Little Piece of You Julie Peakman 01/11/2024The programme introduces us to the real-life seventeen year old singer Kjersti Long who we are told wrote the music...
