Bernstein & Copland Third Symphonies Tim Hochstrasser 16/09/2025Third Symphonies are often major and transformative works – think Beethoven’s Eroica or Mahler’s Third, in which an established composer...
A Streetcar Named Desire Yael Shuv 14/09/2025Earlier this year, I visited London and attended the heralded production of A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Paul Mescal as...
Creditors Rivka Jacobson 13/09/2025This 85-minute production of Creditors at the Orange Tree Theatre is a masterclass in intimacy, tension, and the slow poisoning...
The Genesis Tim Hochstrasser 07/09/2025While it is quite common these days to encounter a standing ovation at the end of an evening in the...
Reviewer's rating A Midsummer Night’s Dream Jad Adams 07/09/2025A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays through it is rarely performed in its entirety. It...
Reviewer's Rating It Never Rains Jad Adams 03/09/2025This smart family drama takes as its title the old saw ‘It never rains but it pours’ to introduce us...
Semele Soyoon Koo 30/08/2025Handel’s Semele (1744) was met with controversy at its premiere for presenting secular opera in the guise of sacred oratorio....
Eugene Onegin Olivia Hurton 17/08/2025Eugene Onegin tells the timeless love story of wanting what you can’t have. Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s opera, inspired by Alexander...
The Estate Wilder Gutterson 10/08/2025Shaan Sahota’s The Estate, now running at the National’s Dorfman Theatre, is a remarkably assured piece of writing, particularly for...
Beethoven: I Shall Hear in Heaven Olivia Hurton 07/08/2025It is surely one of the cruellest fates for any artist to have the very faculties that make their art...
