La Bohème – In Space! Josi Steinfeld 10/10/2025Claus Guth’s once-controversial, space-set Bohème returns to Paris to a packed, euphoric house. What felt scandalous in 2017 now reads...
Lee Tim Hochstrasser 06/10/2025I tend to view plays about creativity or the artistic process with a degree of trepidation. Either they have something...
ROHTKO Emma Nihill 03/10/2025Spanning an epic four hours, director Łukasz Twarkowski and writer Anka Herbut have produced a piece so sublime and original...
The Elixir of Love René Weis FRSA 30/09/2025English Touring Opera’s (ETO) English language production of Donizetti’s sparkling romcom The Elixir of Love was a joy to watch....
Titus Andronicus Rivka Jacobson 28/09/2025The publicity image of Simon Russell Beale drenched in blood suggested a horror fest — the kind of performance that...
MATEO – Opera Tango Josi Steinfeld 21/09/2025In the atmospheric open-air amphitheatre of Monaco’s 14th-century Fort Antoine, Martín Palmieri’s Mateo emerged as a striking fusion of opera...
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...
