Reviewer's Rating The Motive and the Cue Tim Hochstrasser 21/06/2023 903This new play is both a drama and a documentary. Jack Thorne has taken rehearsal recordings and diary records of...
Reviewer's rating The Return of Benjamin Lay Owen Davies 20/06/2023 1650This a remarkable piece of storytelling from the team at the Finborough. Wallace and Rediker have an important story to...
Reviewer's rating Fury and Elysium Richard Voyce 10/06/2023 1105New musicals are hard. Very hard. And Fury and Elysium that has just opened at The Other Palace bills itself...
The Velvet Glove Julie Peakman 10/06/2023 1141When I first heard about the play, I was excited that I was going to watch a performance about Restoration...
Reviewer's rating Patriots Hugo Shapero 08/06/2023 930The faded scarlet opulence of the Noël Coward theatre now hosts the lurid hues of Peter Morgan’s Almeida Transfer, Patriots....
Laika Jad Adams 06/06/2023 1129The ceiling of the theatre is a universe of stars while two musicians produce techno music from flashing decks. Spluttering...
Reviewer's rating Rigoletto René Weis FRSA 06/06/2023 1553The new production of Rigoletto, the opening opera of the 2023 Opera Holland Park season, is a triumph. Directed by...
Reviewer's Rating Il Trovatore Tim Hochstrasser 05/06/2023 791‘Il Trovatore’ (‘The Troubadour’) is a work of extremes, in striking contrast to ‘Rigoletto’ and ‘Traviata’ with which it is...
Reviewer's Rating Aspects of Love Tim Hochstrasser 27/05/2023 874‘Aspects of Love’ was a great success at the back end of the 1980s, helping to make the name of...
Reviewer's Rating Brokeback Mountain Tim Hochstrasser 23/05/2023 1135Unbelievably, it is getting on for twenty years now since the making of the film of ‘Brokeback Mountain’. Such is...