Reviewer's rating Blithe Spirit Hadar Galron 03/11/2021Blithe Spirit is a witty comedy that was written by Noel Coward in 1941. The plot begins when novelist Charles Condomine...
Reviewer's rating Heathers the Musical Richard McKee 03/11/2021No, this musical is not set amid the gorse-strewn banks and braes of Bonny Scotland. It is set in an...
Reviewer's rating La Traviata Rivka Jacobson 29/10/2021In this stupendous revival of Richard Eyre’s 1994 production of La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, the 27 years...
Reviewer's rating Night, Mother Tim Hochstrasser 29/10/2021Nearly 30 years ago this play won a Pulitzer Prize on Broadway and received a very successful UK premiere at...
100 Satyagraha Rivka Jacobson 23/10/2021Philip Glass’s music can be a marvellous tonic. English National Opera 2007 production of Philip Glass’s Satyagraha was first staged...
Reviewer's rating Love and Other Acts of Violence Rivka Jacobson 17/10/2021The newly refurbished and upgraded Donmar Warehouse reopened its doors with Love and Other Acts of Violence by Cordelia Lynn....
Reviewer's rating A Splinter of Ice Emma Burnell 17/10/2021It is 1987 and the Soviet Union is not long for this world. Neither – it turns out – were...
Reviewer's rating Romeo & Juliet Tim Hochstrasser 11/10/2021The Royal Ballet returns with a bang to Covent Garden with its much-loved production of Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’, first...
Reviewer's rating The Normal Heart Tim Hochstrasser 01/10/2021Larry Kramer’s ‘The Normal Heart’ (1985) is recognised as one of the most influential plays to come out of the...
Reviewer's rating Jenůfa Tim Hochstrasser 29/09/2021Jenůfa (1904) is Janáček’s first mature opera, but still underperformed in comparison with the five masterpieces that follow it. Though...
