Reviewer's Rating Manon Lescaut Alessandro Zummo 26/11/2016he first revival of Jonathan Kent’s production of Manon Lescaut stirs strong emotions as it undoubtedly must have when it...
Reviewer's Rating Half A Sixpence Richard Voyce 24/11/2016know I’m always banging on about structure, and what happens when you get it wrong in a musical, but there’s...
Reviewer's Rating The City That Cried Wolf Paul Meltzer 24/11/2016ou have to at least admire the commitment to the premise. Comedian/actor/playwright Brooks Reeves doggedly mashes up every Grimm’s fairy...
Reviewer's Rating Cloud Gate 2 – Triple Bill Pauline Flannery 23/11/2016aiwanese Company, Cloud Gate 2, tear up the rule book. Yes, influences are there – Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, martial...
Reviewer's Rating Akram Khan’s Giselle Primrose MacFay 21/11/2016kram Khan’s re-worked “Giselle” at Sadler’s Wells ended with the packed-house audience rising as one with a standing ovation. Many...
Reviewer's Rating Poison Laura Vogels 16/11/2016t is easy to see why Poison is an international hit. The delicate yet hard-hitting show about the grief of...
Reviewer's Rating The Worst Was This Isabella Cordua 14/11/2016atte ‘O Brien’s The Worst Was This is an exceptional pièce de théâtre where death and life, love and hate,...
Reviewer's Rating Macbeth Aleksandra Sakowska 12/11/2016Julien Balajas’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth is more of a miss than a hit. And it could have been a...
Reviewer's Rating Les Contes d’Hoffman Rivka Jacobson 12/11/2016ohn Schlesinger’s original production with William Dudley’s lavish sets and Maria Björnson’s exquisite costumes, provide an inspired backdrop to the...
Reviewer's Rating Lulu Owen Davies 11/11/2016ulu is a difficult opera to watch at any time – on the day of the US election result it...