Reviewer's rating A Midsummer Night’s Dream Jad Adams 07/09/2025A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays through it is rarely performed in its entirety. It...
Reviewer's Rating It Never Rains Jad Adams 03/09/2025This smart family drama takes as its title the old saw ‘It never rains but it pours’ to introduce us...
Semele Soyoon Koo 30/08/2025Handel’s Semele (1744) was met with controversy at its premiere for presenting secular opera in the guise of sacred oratorio....
Eugene Onegin Olivia Hurton 17/08/2025Eugene Onegin tells the timeless love story of wanting what you can’t have. Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s opera, inspired by Alexander...
The Estate Wilder Gutterson 10/08/2025Shaan Sahota’s The Estate, now running at the National’s Dorfman Theatre, is a remarkably assured piece of writing, particularly for...
Beethoven: I Shall Hear in Heaven Olivia Hurton 07/08/2025It is surely one of the cruellest fates for any artist to have the very faculties that make their art...
A Role to Die For Owen Davies 03/08/2025This fizzing comedy is based on an idea that came to playwright Jordan Waller during a moment of crisis—provoked by...
La Traviata Rivka Jacobson 25/07/2025La Traviata—a romantic-sounding Italian title that translates bluntly as ‘The Fallen Woman’—tells the story of Violetta, a high-class courtesan kept...
Poor Clare Rivka Jacobson 17/07/2025Chiara Atik’s Poor Clare, in its UK premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, is a sharply written, emotionally resonant modern...
Mistero Buffo Yuan Liu 17/07/2025Dario Fo’s Mistero Buffo, a seminal work of political theatre, finds new life in a vibrant Scots adaptation by Joseph...
