Zhang Jun, (张军) “Prince of Kunqu”, in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson Interviews 07/01/2019
Reviewer's rating Back to the Future: The Musical Richard Voyce 28/09/2021Show business is, as the saying goes, not art, but business. And business can be a very venal beast. Rarely...
Reviewer's rating Rock of Ages Richard McKee 22/09/2021Only two weeks ago the New Wimbledon Theatre, opening at last after so many months of ‘restrictions’, was packed with...
Reviewer's rating MXNIFESTO Richard McKee 17/09/2021Titania Gethsemane McGrath is “a spoof radical intersectionalist poet”. When I read that before the show, I was puzzled. What...
Reviewer's rating Piazzolla Project Tim Hochstrasser 17/09/2021This year’s Grimeborn festival came to an end on Sunday with an uplifting survey of the career and work of...
Reviewer's rating Rigoletto Rivka Jacobson 15/09/2021An air of some excitement and anticipation hangs in the packed Royal Opera House’s auditorium. This is the first performance...
Reviewer's Rating The Memory of Water Grace Creaton-Barber 12/09/2021I have one sister, a half-sister, who I admire more than anything. Yes we have our differences, one of us...
Reviewer's rating Orfeo and Zanetto Double Bill Owen Davies 08/09/2021Barefoot Opera brought an unusual double bill to Grimeborn at the Arcola. They paired a shortened version of Gluck’s Orfeo...
Reviewer's rating Invisible Me Richard McKee 04/09/2021Sex in the Sixties? Well, that was the decade of sexual liberation (though it rather passed your reviewer by). But...
Reviewer's rating Rockets and Blue Lights Owen Davies 04/09/2021This fascinating and challenging play by Winsome Pinnock starts from ideas stimulated by two paintings by JMW Turner. The first...
Reviewer's rating 13 Musical Rivka Jacobson 03/09/2021This is an energetic and joyous production of Jason Robert Brown’s 13 (Musical). The entire cast and band consists of teenagers. The...
