Brace Brace Tim Hochstrasser 16/10/2024What strikes you first and – ultimately – last about this show is the set and how it is used...
The Lehman Trilogy Andrew J Defrin 15/10/2024Ben Power’s adaptation of Italian playwright Stefano Massini’s epic The Lehman Trilogy is just that; an epic. Chronicling the Lehman family’s...
Fidelio Marc Berman 15/10/2024Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, is often seen as a “problem” piece. It has wonderful music, starting with the overture so...
Eurydice Tim Hochstrasser 15/10/2024Sarah Ruhl’s new play at the Jermyn Street Theatre is a real treat on so many levels. I was a...
The Sleepwalker (La Sonnambula) Miho Uchida 14/10/2024Bárbara Lluch’s latest production of Bellini’s La Sonnambula at the New National Theatre Tokyo is an absolute triumph, a veritable...
Foreverland Tim Hochstrasser 14/10/2024Emma Hemingford’s new play poses two essential questions – if we could prolong human life more or less without limit,...
Come From Away Sofia Moran 14/10/2024In a small island town on the far eastern coast of Canada, the “plane people” arrived in the midst of...
Gay Pride and No Prejudice Tim Hochstrasser 14/10/2024This new play by David Kerby-Kendall finds an angle on Jane Austen that no one had previously suspected, and then...
The Turn of the Screw Tim Hochstrasser 14/10/2024Britten’s The Turn of the Screw is a masterpiece of sinister implication that takes an original ghost story by Henry James...
The Baddies Ben Reiss 13/10/2024There probably are more joyous things than sitting in an auditorium of young people getting to experience live theatre for...