Reviewer's Rating Lohengrin Tim Hochstrasser 22/04/2022‘Lohengrin’ was Wagner’s first clear masterpiece, but it is all the same an uneasy work, embodying both the culmination of...
Reviewer's rating Les Précieuses Ridicules Pretentious Young Ladies Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 20/04/2022Is 2022 the year the Comédie Française goes camp? With Sébastien Pouderoux and Stéphane Varupenne’s new adaptation of Les Précieuses...
Reviewer's rating The Meaning of Zong Ben Reiss 17/04/2022In a massacre aboard the slave ship Zong – 132 women, men, and children perished in chains in the Caribbean sea in...
Reviewer's rating The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Richard McKee 13/04/2022Like the director of this fabulous production, I first read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when I was...
Reviewer's rating Le nozze di Figaro Yael Shuv 13/04/2022In Don Giovanni, Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte presented their famous hero as a sexual predator rather than...
Reviewer's rating Don Giovanni Owen Davies 10/04/2022This Welsh National Opera production of Don Giovanni has many merits – a fine orchestra, a bold design, some wonderful...
Reviewer's rating SAD Julie Peakman 09/04/2022SAD means Seasonal Affective Disorder and is the reason why Gloria lives in an attic served by her long-suffering husband. ...
Reviewer's rating For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy Emma Burnell 08/04/2022It has been a long time since I saw such a powerful and important play. Everything about this piece works...
Reviewer's rating Anyone Can Whistle Richard Voyce 07/04/2022Sometimes good people do bad things. Sometimes good writers do bad work. Sometimes really good writers do really bad work....
Reviewer's rating The Fever Syndrome Julie Peakman 05/04/2022The lights rise on a table set for an American family dinner which, when it takes place, serves to remind...