La Cenerentola (Cinderella) Owen Davies 07/04/2025This splendid production of Rossini’s operatic version of ‘Cinderella’ displays all the strengths that make Hampstead Garden Opera such an...
The Importance of Being Oscar Olivia Hurton 04/04/2025Oscar Wilde once claimed that ‘to become a work of art is the object of living’. No doubt he would...
Rhinoceros Rivka Jacobson 04/04/2025Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros navigates the line between absurdity and stark reality, probing the question: how far will a person go...
Stiletto Tim Hochstrasser 04/04/2025Stiletto is set in the Venice of the 1730s, the era of Casanova and Canaletto. While there is certainly glamour and...
The Play’s The Thing: A One-Person Hamlet Olivia Hurton 03/04/2025The Play’s The Thing: A One-Person Hamlet is the brainchild of director Fiona Laird and actor Mark Lockyer. It takes...
Apex Predator Olivia Hurton 01/04/2025John Donnelly’s Apex Predator is an oddball new play. It achieves the rare feat of yoking together an exploration of...
Out of the Deep Tim Hochstrasser 28/03/2025Vache Baroque is a relatively new professional group aimed at attracting a younger audience for Baroque music. They aim to...
Reviewer's Rating A Streetcar Named Desire Austin Fimmano 28/03/2025The scene has been set for director Rebecca Frecknall’s A Streetcar Named Desire to dazzle New York. After a sweep...
La bohème Yael Shuv 26/03/2025directorial liberties—nor should it. Puccini’s tale of starving artists in 1830s Paris is best served with a faithful touch. The...
Bechstein Trio – Fauré, Beethoven, Mendelssohn Tim Hochstrasser 24/03/2025When the Bechstein Hall opened, it did so with a resident Trio in place comprising Emmanuel Despax, Guy Johnston, and...
