Reviewer's rating Bluebeard’s Castle Owen Davies 04/09/2022Bartok’s 1918 one-act “expressionist” opera Bluebeard’s Castle is a work that is puzzling and compelling in equal measure. In this...
Reviewer's Rating Patience Tim Hochstrasser 28/08/2022Charles Court Opera has in a short space of time become the acknowledged master of G&S in small spaces. So...
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...
