Aida Alina Bottez 08/08/2026 458Aida, Arena di Verona: A dazzling crystal vision Verdi’s Aida was commissioned for Egypt in connection with the opening of...
Twelfth Night on Kew Soyoon Koo 03/08/2026 472Twelfth Night has always occupied an uneasy place in Shakespeare’s performance history, remembered widely as a festive comedy, yet its...
Flop! Richard Voyce 22/07/2026 423Flop! The Best Songs from the Worst Musicals does exactly what it says on the tin. What the title doesn’t...
Ariadne auf Naxos Tim Hochstrasser 21/07/2026 626Sitting between Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten, this opera partakes of both – a glamorous Viennese salon setting for...
Swan Lake Tim Hochstrasser 19/07/2026 560The 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 17/07/2026 558With 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 13/07/2026 489Aakash 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 569‘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 12/07/2026 754Die Frau ohne Schatten (The woman without a shadow) is the fifth and most ambitious collaboration between Richard Strauss and...
Accabadora Alessandro Zummo 10/07/2026 488The Sardinian word accabadora comes from the root of the Spanish verb acabar, “to finish,” and denotes the woman who...
