Reviewer's Rating Semiramide Marc Aronson 23/02/2018Attending the premier of the revival of Giacomo Rossini’s Semiramide at the Metropolitan Opera the week after Black Panther opened...
Reviewer's Rating Contemporaneity 2.0 Aparna Halpé 21/02/2018What would truth and reconciliation look like, sound like, feel like, if it arrived through the body-knowledge of Indigenous, Black...
Reviewer's Rating Frankenstein Aleksandra Pytko 20/02/2018In 1818 Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, a novel that tells the story of a young ambitious scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who...
Reviewer's Rating Girls and Boys Kezia Niman 16/02/2018I could describe Carey Mulligan’s performance in Girls and Boys as enthralling, unstoppable, a tour de force. But that rhetoric...
Reviewer's Rating Iolanthe Richard Voyce 15/02/2018Forget Hamilton. There’s a new ‘hot ticket’ in town, and it is, of all things, Iolanthe at the ENO! Appearing...
Reviewer's Rating Three Sisters Leslie Gordon 15/02/2018Sarah Ruhl, the funny, sensitive somewhat absurdist playwright of our time, interpreting Anton Chekhov, the grandfather of it all– what...
Reviewer's Rating Don Giovanni Shmuel Ben-Tovim 14/02/2018This was an absolutely amazing, sophisticated, breathtaking opera production, definitely one of the best in recent memory at the Tel...
Reviewer's Rating Written on Skin Katherine Syer 12/02/2018Disclaimer: the highly successful premiere production of George Benjamin’s opera Written on Skin (2012) is etched firmly in my memory....
Reviewer's Rating Amadeus Rivka Jacobson 08/02/2018Peter Shaffer’s multi-award winning play first opened at the National Theatre in 1979 and on Broadway in 1980. This revival,...
Reviewer's Rating X: or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation Austin Fimmano 06/02/2018A slickly-dressed, silver-tongued man is talking a mile a minute, and his words are so harmonious that, if you knew...
