The Fabulist Tim Hochstrasser 21/08/2024Giovanni Paisiello is not a name remembered much now, but in the later eighteenth century his comic operas dominated stages...
Farm Hall René Weis FRSA 14/08/2024Katherine Moar’s Farm Hall is a timely play in the age of Oppenheimer. It is based on the secretly recorded transcripts of Farm...
Bedroom Farce Sofia Moran 12/08/2024Bedroom Farce is a pleasant and mild show looking at different relationships in a comedic light. Published in 1975, the...
The Yeoman of the Guard Richard Voyce 11/08/2024The Yeoman of the Guard, the eleventh collaboration between Gilbert and Sullivan, stands out for several reasons: it doesn’t open...
A Chorus Line Julie Peakman 09/08/2024The show hit Broadway on 25th July 1975, going on to be nominated for twelve Tony Awards, winning nine of...
When It Happens to You Abigail Bryant 09/08/2024When it happens to you is a hard-hitting drama by bestselling American writer Tawni O’Dell, harrowingly based on her own...
The Birthday Party Hal Wooliscroft 08/08/2024The Birthday Party – the story of Stanley, a lodger at a boarding house whose birthday is derailed by the...
Review Rating Fantastically Great Women Julie Peakman 26/07/2024From the first notes of this new musical the diminutive figure of Georgia Grant-Anderson possesses the stage with song and...
Opera in Song 3 – Comedy and Cabaret Tim Hochstrasser 22/07/2024For the final instalment of Opera in Song we were taken on a journey through cabaret and comedy songs led by...
Opera in Song 2 Tim Hochstrasser 21/07/2024Song cycles come and go in popularity and fashion. One that has slipped from the schedules somewhat in recent years...