★ ★ ★ ★ Pictures of Dorian Gray Catherine Flutsch 11/07/2019Jermyn Street Theatre’s production of Pictures of Dorian Gray represents everything I love about the theatre. Working with clean simplicity...
Reviewer's Rating Stones in His Pockets Mel Cooper 10/07/2019The most striking and captivating thing about STONES IN HIS POCKETS is that two actors play all the parts, male...
Reviewer's Rating The Turn of the Screw Owen Davies 09/07/2019“I am the hidden life that stirs when the candle is out” is the line of the libretto that remains...
Reviewer's Rating Hobson’s Choice Sam Dodgshon 04/07/2019With a witty script wonderfully executed by an almost infallible cast, Tanika Gupta’s adaptation of Hobson’s Choice is a fantastic watch. She...
Reviewer's Rating Cosi fan tutte Owen Davies 30/06/2019Mozart produced three great operas with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. Cosi fan Tutte was first performed in Vienna in 1790...
Reviewer's Rating HAIR Mel Cooper 30/06/2019Oh, dear! I am having real trouble analysing this new production of the iconic musical Hair. Partly that is because...
Reviewer's Rating Anna Bolena Mel Cooper 26/06/2019Anna Bolena is one of the great operas of the Italian romantic era. Historically, it was innovative both musically and...
Reviewer's Rating Don Pasquale Owen Davies 23/06/2019Devotees of Donizetti should look away now… but everyone who loves comic opera should pay close attention. With this free...
Reviewer's Rating Don Pasquale Mel Cooper 23/06/2019The Welsh National Opera have again produced a “reduced” version of an opera to tour small scale and mid-sized venues...
Reviewer's Rating Cendrillon Tim Hochstrasser 18/06/2019Cendrillon is Jules Massenet’s late nineteenth-century version of the Cinderella story, which takes the gist of the familiar fairy story...
