Reviewer's Rating Vanessa Tim Hochstrasser 10/08/2018Samuel Barber’s Vanessa (1958) is a work at once accessible and elusive, and a successful production revolves around breaking down...
Reviewer's Rating Rita and L’Heure Espagnole Owen Davies 09/08/2018The Grimeborn opera season at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston has seen double bills from Opera Alegria before. This year...
Reviewer's Rating Sacrifice Nicole Kent 09/08/2018Ardent Theatre Company, established by creative directors Mark Sands and Andrew Muir, provides artistic support to recent graduates who have...
Reviewer's Rating Vicki and Pat in Fuerteventura Richard McKee 09/08/2018Your reviewer had never heard of Fuerteventura, but it turns out to be a holiday resort in the Canary Islands,...
Reviewer's Rating The Daughter of the Regiment Owen Davies 04/08/2018Opera Della Luna has an admirable track record of revitalising old comic operas. Its guiding spirit, Jeff Clarke, has taken...
Reviewer's Rating The Boatswain’s Mate Owen Davies 04/08/2018The Grimeborn opera season at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston always throws up some fascinating curiosities – this charming comic...
Reviewer's Rating Broken Wings Tim Hochstrasser 03/08/2018Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese prose-poet, is still little known in the West despite the fact that his writings, in both...
Reviewer's Rating Spamilton Roger Mortimer 30/07/2018So here we have Spamilton, the name being a combination of Hamilton and Spamalot, itself a play on the name...
Reviewer's Rating Madagascar the Musical Richard McKee 26/07/2018The New Wimbledon Theatre was absolutely packed for the press night of this short run of a brilliant musical. I...
Reviewer's Rating The Rape of Lucretia Owen Davies 25/07/2018The Grimeborn opera season at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston begins with The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten and...
