Reviewer's Rating The Dark Mirror: Zender’s Winterreise Tim Hochstrasser 13/05/2016erformances of Schubert’s late song cycle ‘A Winter’s Journey’ are usually deeply inward experiences: just the singer, a grand piano...
Reviewer's Rating Richard Alston Dance Company: An Italian in Madrid, Burning, Nomadic Pauline Flannery 12/05/2016he eclectic music mix spans Romany singing with urban hip-hop, the frenetic patterning of Listz’s Dante Sonata and the delicate,...
Reviewer's Rating King Lear Adrian Pulle 11/05/2016he Richmond Theatre’s wonderful ‘King Lear’ opens with discord: the fragile but steely-eyed Cordelia (Beth Cooke) enters the bare stage...
Reviewer's Rating Songs of the Wanderers Tim Hochstrasser 11/05/2016loud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan return to Sadler’s Wells with one of their signature works, first developed by choreographer...
Reviewer's Rating Lawrence After Arabia Sophie Heatley 11/05/2016s the centenary of the Arab Revolt (1916-1918), it seems appropriate for writer Howard Brenton to bring the courageous tale...
Reviewer's Rating Devilish Richard Voyce 11/05/2016here’s a lot to recommend Devilish which has just opened at The Landor in Clapham. The set is simple, but...
Reviewer's Rating After Independence Sam Pengelly 11/05/2016imbabwe, 1998. Eighteen years after the country secured its independence from British colonial rule. The Mugabe government is enforcing land-reclamation...
Reviewer's Rating The Diary of a Hounslow Girl Tom Aitken 10/05/2016n one sense of the word this is the least spectacular play I have seen for a long time. One...
Reviewer's Rating Sunset Boulevard Richard Voyce 03/05/2016unset Boulevard first opened at the Adelphi in 1993, with Patti LuPone playing the ‘faded star of yester-year’. It boasted...
Reviewer's Rating Tannhäuser Rivka Jacobson 30/04/2016im Albery’s 2010 production of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäusser, in the 1875 Vienna version, returns to the Royal Opera House for its...