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...
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...
