Retrograde Sofía Danailov Esteban 22/03/2025Retrograde is a play about principle—but also about fear. It asks what it costs to hold onto yourself when the...
The Magic Flute Tim Hochstrasser 07/03/2025In writing opera reviews you often find yourself lamenting the lack of respect or even belief that the director has...
The Score Sofía Danailov Esteban 01/03/2025Some encounters shape history; others shake the very essence of what it means to create. The Score is both. Brian...
Backstroke Nicole Pezza 23/02/2025How much of a mother is there in motherhood? It is a role scrutinized more than any other, burdened with...
Boys from the Blackstuff Ashvin Vasudeva 19/02/2025Boys from the Blackstuff powerfully captures the mood and consequences of economic decline in 1980s Liverpool. The play is unapologetically...
The Passenger Ashvin Vasudeva 18/02/2025The play immerses us into the brutal aftermath of Kristallnacht, the 1938 “Night of Broken Glass,” when Nazi terror unleashed...
Outlying Islands Sofía Danailov Esteban 13/02/2025Outlying Islands is a play where silence speaks as much as words, where the vastness of an unnamed rock becomes a...
Benjamin Bernheim – Recital Josi Steinfeld 12/02/2025Benjamin Bernheim, 39, is one of the finest tenors of his generation, particularly in French lyric roles. With his slim...
The Years Olivia Hurton 10/02/2025A woman’s body is not an easy thing to live in. This is the point made with luminous force and...
Oedipus Olivia Hurton 08/02/2025In the Old Vic’s elemental new production of Oedipus, tragedy is a compulsive dance. The moves are predetermined and age-old:...
