A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tim Hochstrasser 13/12/2024In recent years I have reviewed many productions of this play (and Britten’s opera derived from it) and mostly in...
The Little Foxes Olivia Hurton 13/12/2024Lillian Hellman is remembered as an inveterate liar. It was said that in her writing, which encompassed plays and quasi-biographies,...
Shakespeare Revisited Tim Hochstrasser 09/12/2024The National Opera Studio, supported by our main opera companies, runs a Young Artists course each year for singers on...
The Christmas Thing Wilder Gutterson 08/12/2024The premise of The Christmas Thing, playing at the Seven Dials Playhouse until 21 December, is that the audience is...
Treasure Island Ben Reiss 07/12/2024December in Edinburgh can certainly have you dreaming of sunnier shores. When what little daylight there is comes shrouded in...
The Mouth of the Gods Tim Hochstrasser 06/12/2024Border Crossings are well known for their innovative cross-cultural productions, and in this venture they have truly excelled themselves. The Mouth of...
Napoleon – un Petit Pantomime Tim Hochstrasser 06/12/2024Charles Court Opera have deservedly developed a reputation for pantomimes that strike out into new territory while preserving the core...
Guillaume Tell Miho Uchida 04/12/2024Rossini’s final opera, Guillaume Tell, was recently staged at The New National Theatre Tokyo in its original French for the...
Alice in Wonderland Ashvin Vasudeva 03/12/2024Alice in Wonderland by Poltergeist is a contemporary reimagining of the classic novel, set in a dreamlike version of the...
Tosca Josi Steinfeld 02/12/2024Puccini was so captivated by Sardou’s play La Tosca (performed in French by Sarah Bernhardt), that, despite not understanding a...
