Reviewer's rating Walking with Ghosts Richard McKee 10/09/2022What a tour de force! I had not been expecting anything this good. But just with some lighting and sound...
Reviewer's rating Larkin With Women Emma Burnell 08/09/2022It is Larkin’s centenary – he was born 100 years ago into a very different world. He died 37 years...
Reviewer's rating Bluebeard’s Castle Owen Davies 04/09/2022Bartok’s 1918 one-act “expressionist” opera Bluebeard’s Castle is a work that is puzzling and compelling in equal measure. In this...
Reviewer's Rating Patience Tim Hochstrasser 28/08/2022Charles Court Opera has in a short space of time become the acknowledged master of G&S in small spaces. So...
Reviewer's rating Medea Ben Reiss 26/08/2022There is a moment in the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of Medea when Adura Onashile – playing the titular...
Reviewer's rating An Untitled Love Ben Reiss 24/08/2022The subject of choreographer Kyle Abraham’s new work is clear from the title. Although the dance celebrates the extraordinariness and...
Reviewer's rating The Osmonds Richard McKee 24/08/2022Like C.S. Lewis in a different context, I was “surprised by joy”. Back in the 1970s I was clinging on...
Reviewer's rating The Magic Flute Owen Davies 19/08/2022This utterly absorbing retelling of The Magic Flute is a triumph for Opera Alegria – and for the Arcola Theatre’s...
Reviewer's rating Aida Alessandro Zummo 17/08/2022Shirin Neshat directed Aida at Salzburg Festival five years ago and it was reviewed here. It was her first experience...
Reviewer's rating Footloose Richard McKee 17/08/2022This is a curate’s egg of a show. It’s good in parts, indeed very good. But some of it is...
