Salome Owen Davies 22/04/2026Richard Strauss composed some of the most beautiful operatic music for the female voice. Salome, his first big success, dating...
Twice A Kiss Tim Hochstrasser 22/04/2026Outside Cambridge, where he was a leading figure in the musical firmament for some thirty years, the name of Peter...
Between the River and The Sea Wilder Gutterson 21/04/2026As an Arab Christian who grew up in Israel as part of the country’s Palestinian minority, Yousef Sweid embodies a...
The Gondoliers Richard Voyce 15/04/2026If I had been taken to The Hackney Empire to see only Robin Bailey as Marco (in English Touring Opera’s...
Attachment Theory Wilder Gutterson 14/04/2026The premise of Attachment Theory, by Liam Scanlon, (transferring from Canal Café Theatre to The Bread and Roses Theatre), is...
Reviewer's rating Iphigenia Jad Adams 14/04/2026It is always a challenge to produce a piece of literature two and a half millennia old, there is a...
Pagliacci Olivia Hurton 13/04/2026The auditorium of an opera house is a place for grand passions and improbable fantasies, where dreaming is done in...
Dear Jack, Dear Louise Tim Hochstrasser 13/04/2026When I undertook to review this play I was half expecting something in the genre of 84 Charing Cross Road...
Saint Joan Tim Hochstrasser 13/04/2026Productions of plays by George Bernard Shaw are fairly rare these days. Like Haydn in classical music, he has been...
A Doll’s House Rivka Jacobson 10/04/2026Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House has long stood as a landmark of modern drama, its famous door slam signalling a...