Reviewer's Rating Rouge Richard McKee 01/09/2019 4203It 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 26/08/2019 2031War 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 2081“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 15/08/2019 5253This 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 14/08/2019 6140This 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 13/08/2019 4991Flamboyant 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 03/08/2019 2094The new production of Kiss Me, Kate at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury is quite simply a triumph. I cannot...
Reviewer's Rating Une vie sur mesure (A tailor-made life) Le Festival d’Avignon Marie Communal 27/07/2019 2282It is 10:30 AM in Avignon. At this time of the morning, the city is still calm. But at the...
Reviewer's rating Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s MacBeth Ann Pryor 22/07/2019 3183How can playwright Tom Stoppard play with Shakespeare? With words, with time, with a soccer ball (yes, there is one). ...
Reviewer's rating Solaris Le Festival d’Avignon Le Festival d’Avignon Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 20/07/2019 2668It is quite rare to see works of science-fiction adapted to the stage these days: it is not considered as...
