60 Kagami Julie Peakman 05/01/2024Ryuichi Sakamoto was a Japanese composer and pianist who died in 2023. Yet here he is playing on a stately...
Reviewer's Rating A Christmas Carol Tim Hochstrasser 29/12/2023Antic Disposition have gained a distinguished reputation for their adaptation of Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’, performed now for a decade...
80 The Motive and the Cue Jad Adams 21/12/2023The Motive and the Cue opens in a Broadway rehearsal room where the cast assembles with the intention of creating...
Reviewer's Rating Rock ‘N’ Roll Tim Hochstrasser 13/12/2023This play was originally produced at the Royal Court back in 2006 and now returns to Hampstead at Stoppard’s suggestion....
Reviewer's Rating Talking About The Fire Tim Hochstrasser 09/12/2023With the recent intense coverage of ‘Oppenheimer’, nuclear weapons are very much back under public scrutiny; so there is certainly...
Reviewer's Rating Pacific Overtures Tim Hochstrasser 08/12/2023‘Pacific Overtures’ was written in 1976, during Sondheim’s golden years, just after ‘A Little Night Music’ and before ‘Sweeney Todd’....
The Homecoming Hal Wooliscroft 06/12/2023Matthew Dunster’s production of Pinter’s iconic play retains all of its troubling power, whilst managing to give its sole female...
Reviewer's Rating Dreaming and Drowning Tim Hochstrasser 05/12/2023The intimate space of the Bush studio theatre is currently home to a fine, taut, piece of new writing by...
Reviewer's Rating Taming Who? Tim Hochstrasser 04/12/2023I have written here before of the remarkable and under-appreciated work done by Inter-Mission Youth Theatre, and their latest production,...
Reviewer's rating Odyssey: A Heroic Pantomime Owen Davies 02/12/2023Charles Court Opera, led by John Savournin, has been putting on Christmas shows for a number of years now –...
