Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria Tim Hochstrasser 11/06/2026 274Ahead of its residency at the Grimeborn Festival, Ensemble OrQuesta offers a couple of Academy production at the Cockpit Theatre...
Allegra Tim Hochstrasser 09/06/2026 710About twenty years ago I went to the Old Vic for a performance of Alladin where the big attraction was...
Mass Wilder Gutterson 07/06/2026 472The title of Fran Kranz’s explosive and powerful play Mass will undoubtedly conjure images of a church service or a...
High Society Tim Hochstrasser 06/06/2026 464It is not uniformly the case that every play or film should or needs to be a musical, but when...
Reviewers Rating You’ve Gone Quiet Julie Peakman 05/06/2026 1037There is a joke from the 1970s that runs ‘When God created people She put in a joke: She created...
Krapp’s Last Tape Olivia Hurton 31/05/2026 806Beckett was surely having fun when he conceived of Krapp’s Last Tape (1958). He christened his titular character with a...
Reviewers Rating Dark of the Moon Julie Peakman 27/05/2026 1301The original version of this production was a play first performed in 1942 at the University of Iowa and then...
Purcell, The Musical Tim Hochstrasser 24/05/2026 478Barnes Green on a lovely Spring evening is a fine setting for an evening of Purcell. This week at the...
Dido & Aeneas Tim Hochstrasser 23/05/2026 626In his excellent programme note Michael Burden points out that we know very little about the origins and performance circumstances...
Reviewer's rating A Tale of Two Cities Jad Adams 22/05/2026 519There are problems with adaptations of Dickens which are hard to surmount. His novels were published serially so their structure...
