Reviewer's Rating Clutch Tim Hochstrasser 23/09/2022The Studio at the Bush Theatre currently hosts an hour-long two-hander devoted to driving lessons. Or so it appears. Two...
Reviewer's rating Sherlock Holmes : The Valley of Fear Richard McKee 22/09/2022Based upon one of Conan Doyle’s four full-length books featuring the world’s most famous sleuth, this adaptation is an ambitious...
Reviewer's Rating The Snail House Grace Creaton-Barber 20/09/2022Richard Eyre’s much anticipated original play tries incredibly hard to be of the time but sadly lacks the nuance to...
Reviewer's Rating Antigone Tim Hochstrasser 11/09/2022The season at Regent’s Park closes with a reworking of Sophocles’ Antigone by Inua Ellams. The framework of key familial relationships...
Reviewer's Rating Trump L’oeil Tim Hochstrasser 11/09/2022Donald Trump is an enigma, and rich material for a musical. There have been many attempts to stage his personality,...
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...
