Reviewer's rating The Most Precious of Goods Rivka Jacobson 31/01/2024Very few performances capture the audience’s attention, from start to finish. This one does. It holds our attention on centre...
Elektra Josi Steinfeld 16/01/2024Elektra is Richard Strauss’ first collaboration with Hofmannsthal, and the second of Strauss’ modernist operas – the first was Salome...
Reviewer’s Rating Nutcracker Rouge Austin Fimmano 15/01/2024We may be halfway into the month of January, but the Christmas spirit remains blazingly alive at Théâtre XIV in...
Reviewer's Rating A Christmas Carol Tim Hochstrasser 29/12/2023Antic Disposition have gained a distinguished reputation for their adaptation of Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’, performed now for a decade...
Reviewer's rating Pantomime: Rapunzel Owen Davies 09/12/2023Theatre Peckham is the best sort of local theatre, rooted in the local community and putting on shows that both...
Reviewer's rating Cavalleria Rusticana/ Pagliacci Josi Steinfeld 05/12/2023Cavalleria Rusticana was a late entry for an 1888 competition for young Italian composers who had not staged a performance,...
Reviewer's Rating Taming Who? Tim Hochstrasser 04/12/2023I have written here before of the remarkable and under-appreciated work done by Inter-Mission Youth Theatre, and their latest production,...
Reviewer's rating Odyssey: A Heroic Pantomime Owen Davies 02/12/2023Charles Court Opera, led by John Savournin, has been putting on Christmas shows for a number of years now –...
Reviewer's rating The Witches Tobi Philips (8) 24/11/2023Dahl’s 1988 novel undergoes a worthy theatrical adaptation, turning the eerie into the absurd and the creepy into a continuous...
Reviewer's Rating The Mongol Khan Tim Hochstrasser 23/11/2023Epic accounts of Asiatic history, crammed with extravagant dance, music and costumes, sweep through London theatres with some regularity; and...
