Reviewer's rating Footloose Richard McKee 17/08/2022This is a curate’s egg of a show. It’s good in parts, indeed very good. But some of it is...
Reviewer's rating Monster Emma Burnell 11/08/2022Monster covers a really tough and difficult topic and does so with enormous humanity and real depth. It views a...
Reviewer's rating Closer Emily Louizou 06/08/2022Closer was first performed 25 years ago – in May 1997. I first saw it in Athens in 2008 and...
South Pacific Julie Peakman 06/08/2022Anyone who is a fan of the film South Pacific approaches a new production with some trepidation. Will it be...
Reviewer's rating 101 Dalmatians Emily Louizou 30/07/2022Dodie Smith’s The Hundred and One Dalmatians is one of the most popular stories of the 20th century. Disney, of...
Reviewer's rating Much Ado About Nothing Rivka Jacobson 29/07/2022The auditorium was packed on the night I attended (and it was not press night),. The laughter and cheering from...
Reviewer's rating Incoronazione di Poppea Owen Davies 28/07/2022Monteverdi was a venerable and celebrated church musician of 75 when he wrote Poppea. It was quite common for church...
Reviewer's Rating Chasing Hares Tim Hochstrasser 27/07/2022This new play at the Young Vic operates on a number of levels. On the face of it, the play...
Reviewer's rating Antonio e Cleopatra Owen Davies 26/07/2022Johann Hasse was one of the most popular opera composers of the eighteenth century. He died in 1783 (just 8...
Reviewer's Rating Little Women Tim Hochstrasser 25/07/2022‘The perfect summer came to pass, but not to stay.’ This line from near the end of Mark Adamo’s contemporary...
