DONBAS Soyoon Koo 14/02/2026Seeing DONBAS in the claustrophobic hush of Theatre503 is a smart theatrical decision. Olga Braga’s writing, which moves cleanly between...
Cosi fan Tutte Owen Davies 10/02/2026This opera – one of the three great works to emerge from the partnership of Mozart and Da Ponte, the...
Dance of Death Rivka Jacobson 07/02/2026Richard Eyre’s production of Dance of Death at the Orange Tree Theatre refuses consolation, revealing how August Strindberg engineers’ endurance,...
The Ophiolite Tim Hochstrasser 07/02/2026This is a play with a self-conscious literary and historical past. In his programme note, author Philip de Voni acknowledges...
Monstering The Rocketman Richard Voyce 07/02/2026There’s a common phrase that goes something along the lines of ‘if you can remember the 1960’s, you weren’t there’....
Ballad Lines Owen Davies 06/02/2026This glorious show is labelled “a folk musical”, and the description fits beautifully. It tells the stories of a line...
★ ★ ★ ★ Chiten Theatre presents The Gambler Soyoon Koo 06/02/2026The Coronet Theatre’s latest guests, Kyoto’s Chiten Theatre, have a take on Dostoevsky’s The Gambler that arrives like a hand...
The Rat Trap Tim Hochstrasser 05/02/2026This new-old play turned out to be an unexpected suprise. I thought I knew the Coward-canon all the way through,...
American Psycho Olivia Hurton 04/02/2026Rupert Goold’s thirteen-year tenure as artistic director of the Almeida Theatre in Islington has seen it transform into a leading...
Mozart’s Requiem: Listening Back to Da Ponte’s Lost World Rivka Jacobson 31/01/2026During the Barbican performance of Mozart’s Requiem, there was a moment — brief and unanticipated — when the music unsettled...
