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...
Reviewer's Rating Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen Tim Hochstrasser 20/11/2023While many shows that succeed at the Edinburgh Fringe later transfer to London, it is by no means certain that...
Reviewer's Rating Respighi: Opera Double Bill Tim Hochstrasser 17/11/2023As so often, the Guildhall School is going where the leading opera houses fear to tread. This term’s opera production...
Reviewer's rating Cowbois Mel Cooper 07/11/2023Let me start by saying that for me COWBOIS is unmissable because it does exactly what good theatre is supposed...
Reviewer's Rating The Flea Tim Hochstrasser 19/10/2023Productions at The Yard have developed a strong reputation for alternative riffs on traditional tales, and this post-modern, punk take...
Reviewer's rating Iolanthe Josi Steinfeld 12/10/2023Sir Arthur Sullivan had a double life. On the one hand, revered by royalty and knighted (he composed ‘onward Christian...
