Wife to James Whelan Olivia Hurton 06/07/2026 453Plays, it is sometimes argued, are transient things. They emerge from a particular socio-historic moment, coloured by all its prejudices...
Springwood Tim Hochstrasser 01/07/2026 372When did it become the fashion to ring the changes on play or a film so that each has to...
Archduke Tim Hochstrasser 29/06/2026 360Many writers take their cue from historical events, but Rajiv Joseph’s spin on history is a consistently interesting one. In...
Cyrano de Bergerac Wilder Gutterson 29/06/2026 428There is little more satisfying than falling under the spell of a theatre production that is both entertaining and emotionally...
The Chocolate Soldier Tim Hochstrasser 29/06/2026 473Given Shaw’s antipathy towards musical theatre, it is ironic that three of the great musicals of the twentieth century were...
In the Belly of the Beast Tim Hochstrasser 29/06/2026 324Though running for little over an hour, this programme of three Biblical cantatas by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre was...
Sting Wilder Gutterson 25/06/2026 387Sadly, the news has lately been full of stories about women abused and murdered by men, often men in positions...
The Truth Wilder Gutterson 25/06/2026 599There is something unmistakably French about the light-hearted frothiness of The Truth, a revival of Florian Zeller’s 2011 comedy about...
We Had a World Wilder Gutterson 14/06/2026 441From Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night to Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, the theatrical canon is rich with...
A Life in Four Seasons Tim Hochstrasser 13/06/2026 547One of the marvels of dance, of whatever kind, is its aesthetic suppleness. It can tell stories, or embody symbolism...
