Humans Catherine Flutsch 15/09/2019Circa ensemble’s show, Humans, is something very, very special. Circa ensemble’s description of its show is simple; 10 acrobats take the...
Posh Catherine Flutsch 08/09/2019Posh is a beautifully written, well-acted and superbly staged play. These are reasons enough to go and see it. In...
Reviewer's Rating Falsettos Richard Voyce 07/09/2019It’s a rare show indeed where you can actually hear grown men crying at the final curtain, before the audience...
Reviewer's Rating Rouge Richard McKee 01/09/2019It isn’t often that an essay by William Hazlitt springs to mind while watching a circus. But such was the...
Reviewer's rating War Horse Mel Cooper 26/08/2019War Horse is a very special and remarkable piece of theatre. Probably influenced by Julie Taymor’s thoughtful use of puppets...
Reviewer's Rating Towards Zero Richard McKee 19/08/2019“What’s your name, constable?” asked the irascible Inspector Barlow. “Fancy … er, William Smith, sir.” “You think Leeds is centre...
Reviewer's rating Lohengrin Bayreuth Festival 2019 Tony Cooper 15/08/2019This production of Wagner’s Lohengrin by Yuval Sharon – born in Chicago in 1979 to Israeli parents and Bayreuth’s first...
Reviewer's rating Alcina Salzburg Festival 2019 Alessandro Zummo 14/08/2019This famous opera by Handel, which premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on 16 April 1735, has always been...
Reviewer's Rating Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Bayreuther Festspiele Tony Cooper 13/08/2019Flamboyant and a wonderfully quirky director Barrie Kosky’s innovative production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg was first seen at Bayreuth...
Reviewer's rating Kiss Me, Kate Mel Cooper 03/08/2019The new production of Kiss Me, Kate at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury is quite simply a triumph. I cannot...
