The Pianist Tim Hochstrasser 29/10/2026 12It would be hard to find anyone who does not know the film version of Wladyslaw Szpilman’s memoir, a film...
1984 Ben Reiss 28/10/2026 28The world can feel like an increasingly dystopian place. Press outlets and politicians insist that what you thought you heard...
Burlesque Holly Cowan 28/10/2026 57When the film Burlesque hit our screens in 2010, it seemed to be screaming for an onstage adaptation, or rather...
The Cherry Orchard Lara Inglis-Jones 28/10/2026 38The Cherry Orchard is one of the best-known plays of the 20th century. Anton Chekhov wrote it at the end...
Reviewer's rating Memoriam Jad Adams 27/10/2026 53‘Never forget’ is a frequently voiced injunction about the holocaust, the value of which is endorsed by most people. ‘How...
The Master Builder René Weis FRSA 24/10/2026 69An ageing dramatist reinventing himself as a fictional Master Builder lies at the root of this autobiographical play; written by...
Reviewer's rating Complicite Jad Adams 23/10/2026 90Complicité opens with a man handcuffed to a tree in a park in the middle of London having phone sex....
Angel’s Bone Tim Hochstrasser 22/10/2026 104This opera is a decade old now, and after success in America comes to London with ENO after a recent...
Ghosts Rivka Jacobson 22/10/2026 70A confined stage can act as a magnifying glass, bringing the smallest gestures and facial expressions into sharp focus. Yet...
The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt, France, 1940 Olivia Hurton 21/10/2026 147Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka. The names of these Nazi extermination camps conjure devastation that remains woundingly fresh. They are ever-present reminders...
