Swan Lake Tim Hochstrasser 19/07/2026The marvel of Swan Lake is its plasticity and flexibility in the hands of so many generations of performers, directors...
The Smile of Her Rivka Jacobson 17/07/2026With that deceptively simple observation, Christine Lahti opens one of the most compelling evenings of theatre currently on the London...
Songs of the Bulbul Hafiza Butt 13/07/2026Aakash Odedra’s ‘Songs of the Bulbul’ is a truly remarkable show; a comprehensive exploration of that most ephemeral of things:...
The Importance of Being Earnest Tim Hochstrasser 13/07/2026‘We live, I regret to say, in an Age of Surfaces,’ says Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest....
Die Frau ohne Schatten Alessandro Zummo 12/07/2026Die Frau ohne Schatten (The woman without a shadow) is the fifth and most ambitious collaboration between Richard Strauss and...
Accabadora Alessandro Zummo 10/07/2026The Sardinian word accabadora comes from the root of the Spanish verb acabar, “to finish,” and denotes the woman who...
Requiem Alessandro Zummo 08/07/2026Mozart’s Requiem is inseparable from the mythology of its own making. Composed in the shadow of the composer’s death in...
Wife to James Whelan Olivia Hurton 06/07/2026Plays, it is sometimes argued, are transient things. They emerge from a particular socio-historic moment, coloured by all its prejudices...
Macbeth (opera) Josi Steinfeld 05/07/2026Verdi regarded Shakespeare’s Macbeth as “one of the greatest creations of man”, declaring: “If we cannot make something great out...
Eugene Onegin Josi Steinfeld 03/07/2026Tchaikovsky’s Pushkin-based opera traces Tatyana’s youthful infatuation with the worldly Onegin, his fatal duel with Lensky, and their devastating reunion...
