The Name Hafiza Butt 23/05/2026 533There is a reason why Simon Usher is one of our finest stage directors, and it’s not just his intelligence,...
Dido & Aeneas Tim Hochstrasser 23/05/2026 615In his excellent programme note Michael Burden points out that we know very little about the origins and performance circumstances...
Un Ballo in Maschera Josi Steinfeld 21/05/2026 887In 1857, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples commissioned Giuseppe Verdi to compose a new opera. He chose Un Ballo...
Sherlock Holmes Sara Tiron 19/05/2026 603At Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Sherlock Holmes transforms detective fiction into something vividly alive. Written by Joel Horwood and...
1536 Olivia Hurton 14/05/2026 674Who, as a child, did not skip around the playground after history lessons chanting, ‘Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived’?...
Noughts and Crosses Sara Tiron 14/05/2026 496At Hackney Empire, a theatre whose setting makes questions of race, class, and belonging feel immediate rather than abstract, Pilot...
The Marriage of Figaro Ziyu Zhang 12/05/2026 481Accessibility is the defining ambition of the revival of Sir Thomas Allen’s production of The Marriage of Figaro. The English-language...
Two Halves of Guinness Tim Hochstrasser 23/04/2026 899This remarkable one-man show celebrates and excavates the life and career of Sir Alec Guinness. Of all that generation of...
The Gondoliers Richard Voyce 15/04/2026 723If I had been taken to The Hackney Empire to see only Robin Bailey as Marco (in English Touring Opera’s...
Dear Jack, Dear Louise Tim Hochstrasser 13/04/2026 818When I undertook to review this play I was half expecting something in the genre of 84 Charing Cross Road...
