David Copperfield Tim Hochstrasser 27/11/2025 839I confess I often approach Christmas theatre in London with a touch of dread, as a reviewer who is mostly...
Ride The Cyclone Richard Voyce 23/11/2025 876Ride The Cyclone is a sure-fire, five-star, standing-ovation hit. You can either take my word for it and book a...
Dead Man Walking Soyoon Koo 03/11/2025 1746Jake Heggie’s acclaimed Dead Man Walking debuts in London, demanding attention, compassion, and courage from its audience and do away...
The Line of Beauty Rivka Jacobson 03/11/2025 1170Beauty, class, and desire intertwine in a brilliant new staging at the Almeida. Jack Holden’s stage adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s...
Mozart Requiem Lennon Hu 02/11/2025 1375The show began with Camille Pépin’s Inlandsis. This was a magical piece, in the way that looking at a mountain...
La Bohème Ziyu Zhang 25/10/2025 1663Transposed to Paris’s Jazz Age of the 1920s, André Barbe and Renaud Doucet’s production of La Bohème revives Puccini’s theatrical...
Candide Owen Davies 24/10/2025 792I first saw this marvellous Welsh National Opera production of Bernstein’s gloriously messy masterpiece in Cardiff in 2023, and I...
The Maids Rivka Jacobson 23/10/2025 946Kip Williams’ new version of Jean Genet’s The Maids at the Donmar Warehouse propels Genet’s mid-century “hall of mirrors” into...
La Bohème – In Space! Josi Steinfeld 10/10/2025 1941Claus 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 06/10/2025 741I tend to view plays about creativity or the artistic process with a degree of trepidation. Either they have something...
