Reviewer's rating Sheila’s Island Ben Reiss 06/03/2022Take four ‘business executives from the Salford Pennine Water Company’, strand them on an island in the middle of Derwent...
Reviewer's Rating The Telephone & Miss Fortune Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2022There are obvious attractions behind offering a double-bill for the Spring opera slot at the Guildhall: a variety of mood...
Reviwer's Rating MIMMA: a Musical of War and Friendship Julie Peakman 02/03/2022My first surprise was that this is not the usual musical theatre I am used to, but more of an...
Reviewer's Rating Proud Tim Hochstrasser 01/03/2022‘Proud’ is adapted by Bren Gosling from his novel depicting the interactions between three characters in contemporary London. Roland is...
Reviewer's Rating The Collaboration by Anthony McCarten Tim Hochstrasser 25/02/2022I was really excited to see The Collaboration for completely selfish reasons. In another life, I stage-managed a beautiful show...
Reviewer's Rating Pick A Pocket or Two – A History of British Musical Theatre By Ethan Mordden Tim Hochstrasser 22/02/2022This new and welcome study of the history of the musical in Britain fills -incredibly – a major gap in...
Reviewer's Rating Urinetown Tim Hochstrasser 22/02/2022This musical is unusual in at least two respects: it was both cancelled and then remade by 9/11, and it...
Reviewer's rating The Cunning Little Vixen Teddy Hempstead 21/02/2022Since its first performance, in 1924, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen has enjoyed the kind of philosophical tug-of-war usually reserved...
Reviewer's Rating The Ballad of Maria Marten Richard Voyce 18/02/2022On Friday 18th May, 1827, Maria Marten left the family home in Polstead, Suffolk, that she shared with her father...
Reviewer's rating Les Indes Galantes Owen Davies 17/02/2022Marcio da Silva’s groundbreaking company Ensemble Orquesta (EO) is fast developing an enviable reputation for bringing rare baroque treasures to...
