Reviewer's Rating Barber Shop Chronicles Ben Reiss 30/10/2019The scene is set from the moment audience members step into the theatre and are invited to join the cast...
Hedda Gabler Marine Furet 28/10/2019At the beginning of the Sherman Theatre’s new production of Hedda Gabler, Hedda (Heledd Gwynn) is alone on stage, her...
Reviewer's Rating Red Velvet Tim Hochstrasser 20/10/2019Red Velvet has had great success on both sides of the Atlantic since its first appearance at the Tricyle/Kiln back in...
Reviewer's rating Don Pasquale Shadi Seifouri 15/10/2019Teetering between cruelty and comedy, director Damiano Michieletto brings a new production of Don Pasquale to the ROH, after its...
Reviewer's Rating Orpheus and Eurydice Tim Hochstrasser 15/10/2019Gluck’s contribution to the development of opera is still under-appreciated, straddling as he does the transition between the Baroque and...
Reviewer's Rating King John Mel Cooper 07/10/2019Let me start by saying that the new production of Shakespeare’s too-infrequently produced play, King John, is entertaining, moving, engaging,...
Reviewer's rating Agrippina Helen Astrid 07/10/2019Of all the German composers in the 18th Century, Music by Handel epitomises the most European-ness; written in just 21...
Instruments of Time & Truth/Bojan Čičić Catherine Flutsch 05/10/2019Instruments of Time & Truth’s concert was something heavenly. Performed in Oxford’s magnificent Sheldonian Theatre, the musicians of IT&T played two...
Reviewer's rating We Anchor In Hope Richard McKee 05/10/2019I’ve been to theatres in pubs before. Pub theatres are quite common, after all. But I’ve never seen a theatre...
Reviewer's rating The Elixir of Love Owen Davies 04/10/2019The Welsh are coming! After a Don Pasquale set in Cardiff around a kebab van, we now have an Elisir...