Julius Caesar in Egypt Josi Steinfeld 15/05/2025Handel’s Giulio Cesare remains one of his top ten operas, and for good reason. It was a resounding success at...
House of Games Tim Hochstrasser 13/05/2025With Dealer’s Choice playing at the Donmar, and this production opening at Hampstead, the risks and temptations of gambling are...
Faygele Lara Inglis-Jones 12/05/2025Faygele, currently running at London’s Marylebone Theatre, feels less like a traditional play and more like a confessional. Written by...
Jephtha – An Oratorio in Three Acts Josi Steinfeld 11/05/2025For his final oratorio, Handel chose the Old Testament story of Jephtha, the Israelite leader who vows to sacrifice the...
Port Talbot Gotta Banksy Rhys John Edwards 09/05/2025I’ve never been much of a fan of verbatim theatre. Arrogantly, I always felt it was a bit like cheating....
Janáček’s Brouček – A Rare Comic Gem in Concert Josi Steinfeld 07/05/2025Leoš Janáček’s opera Brouček (meaning “little beetle”) had a notoriously protracted genesis. The composer was determined to adapt the satirical...
My Master Builder Olivia Hurton 06/05/2025Ibsen wrote plays that were constructed like buildings—well-made, multilevelled and erected on the sturdy foundations of social realism. The increasingly...
Krapp’s Last Tape: A Ritual of Becoming Sofía Danailov Esteban 04/05/2025Some plays whisper more than they speak. Krapp’s Last Tape is one of them. Haunting in its restraint, Beckett’s one-man...
Pimpinone Sofia Moran 04/05/2025Georg Philipp Telemann’s Pimpinone, first performed in 1725 as a comic intermezzo between the acts of Handel’s Tamerlano, is a...
The Government Inspector Tim Hochstrasser 03/05/2025I am sure no one intended it, but to have the press night of this play fall on the day...
