Reviewer's rating The Shawshank Redemption Mel Cooper 18/02/2023 1729I have never seen the film that was made of The Shawshank Redemption, a novella by Stephen King that is...
Reviewer's Rating The Tempest Mel Cooper 13/02/2023 1574If I could give this production of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest more than five stars, I would. This is one...
Reviewer's rating HEX Evelien van den Hondel (14) 15/12/2022 1771When the protagonist of our story, an outcast fairy called ‘Fairy’, meets an odd man in the forest one day,...
Reviewer's rating Othello Emily Louizou 12/12/2022 1512I still remember going to the National to watch Nicholas Hytner’s production of Othello for the Olivier stage. Almost ten...
Reviewer's rating The Makropulos Affair Mel Cooper 04/12/2022 1341The brand new production by the Welsh National Opera of Janáček penultimate opera, The Makropulos Affair, is, quite simply, a...
Reviewer's rating La Bohème Mel Cooper 02/12/2022 1435The WNO is touring a La Bohème that gets most things about the opera right. The production by Annabel Arden...
Reviewer's Rating Alcina Tim Hochstrasser 21/11/2022 1425On the face of it, Handel operas should not work. Bafflingly complicated plots and a long series of ‘Da Capo’...
HERE Julie Peakman 16/11/2022 1383With a nod to the ‘kitchen-sink dramas’ of the 1960s, Here is set in a dreary kitchen somewhere in the...
Reviewer's rating Dinner with Groucho Mel Cooper 15/11/2022 1285Dinner with Groucho is a kind of one-act fantasia on the historic fact that T S Eliot and Groucho Marx...
Reviewer's rating From Here To Eternity Richard Voyce 11/11/2022 1164There’s really only one question that needs to be asked about From Here To Eternity which has just opened at...
