Aida Josi Steinfeld 05/05/2023Aida was conceived by Verdi as the grandest of grand opera for Cairo in 1871 as a great spectacle. It...
Glory Ride Julie Peakman 29/04/2023Gino Bartali was a real-life cycling athlete who helped save Jewish children from the Nazis during the war by smuggling...
Supernova Emma Burnell 28/04/2023When reviewing theatre there are several different approaches one can take. There is a more traditional assumption that one should...
Reviewer's Rating Sweeney Todd Tim Hochstrasser 27/04/2023Any call ‘to attend the tale of Sweeney Todd’ summons up Broadway rather than Hoxton; but it was at the...
Reviewer's Rating F**king Men Tim Hochstrasser 27/04/2023You might well think from the confronting title and art work that goes with it that this play occupies a...
Dixon and Daughters Emma Burnell 26/04/2023Lots about Dixon and Daughters is ever so slightly off. That is both it’s strength and it weakness. Take it’s...
Reviewer's rating The Secret Life of Bees Adi Ginat 25/04/2023‘The Secret Life of Bees’ is a beautiful and moving musical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s novel of the same...
Reviewer's Rating Dancing at Lughnasa Tim Hochstrasser 25/04/2023‘Atmosphere is more real than incident, and everything is simultaneously actual and illusory’. So says, Michael, the adult narrator in...
Reviewer's Rating Animal Tim Hochstrasser 24/04/2023‘Animal’ opens at Park200 after an initial run in Manchester and winning the inaugural Through the Mill Playwriting Prize. It...
Reviewer's Rating The Good Person of Szechwan Tim Hochstrasser 23/04/2023This is the 80th anniversary year of a play that has become accepted as one of Brecht’s most durable, where...
