Reviewer's Rating Midsummer Night’s Dream Tim Hochstrasser 13/03/2019Britten is often thought of as a precocious composer, enjoying a brilliant success as a young man, especially in opera,...
Reviewer's Rating Elizabeth I Tim Hochstrasser 13/03/2019Among Rossini’s 39 operas ‘Elizabeth, Queen of England’ is unaccountably neglected. It marked perhaps the most important turning point of...
Reviewer's Rating Circa Tim Hochstrasser 13/03/2019After successful outings in Amsterdam and at The Vaults, this debut play comes to Islington for almost a month in...
Reviewer's rating Lorna Dallas “Stages” Richard McKee 11/03/2019“Priscilla Perfect” – that is the moniker attached to one of Lorna Dallas’ many roles on the stage, and while...
Reviewer's Rating SIX Grace Creaton-Barber 08/03/2019“Remember us from your GCSEs?” – Not like this we don’t. It would be great to see my old history...
Reviewer's Rating A Lesson from Aloes Owen Davies 06/03/2019Athol Fugard is a playwright of world status and he has written almost 40 plays now. This work dates from...
Reviewer's Rating ART Vera Mikusch 06/03/2019The brief title, Art, encompasses from A to T a satirical comedy that leaves the audience in stitches from beginning to...
reviewer's rating The Merry Widow Owen Davies 03/03/2019The Merry Widow is a charming bit of Viennese nonsense with some good tunes and a bit of a Beatrice...
Reviewer's rating Sean McLoughlin Richard McKee 02/03/2019“I hear there’s a reviewer in the audience”, said the stand-up menacingly. “Well, he’d better give me f—ing five stars...
Reviewer's Rating Tartuffe Agnes Carrington-Windo 01/03/2019Tartuffe is an entertaining adaptation of Molière’s original satire on religion. In John Donnelly’s version, the criticism of religious hypocrisy...