The Marriage of Figaro Owen Davies 09/02/2025Despite all the pressures that Welsh National Opera (WNO) is facing, their revival of The Marriage of Figaro, in the...
Oedipus Olivia Hurton 08/02/2025In the Old Vic’s elemental new production of Oedipus, tragedy is a compulsive dance. The moves are predetermined and age-old:...
Mrs. President Ashvin Vasudeva 08/02/2025Mrs. President seeks to give a voice to Mary Lincoln, the often-overlooked wife of Abraham Lincoln. In doing so, the...
Reviewer's Rating Scissorhandz Julie Peakman 07/02/2025As we enter the auditorium, Susie Quatro’s ‘Devil Gate Drive’ with its lyrics ‘Come Alive’ is playing and I think...
The Flying Dutchman Owen Davies 06/02/2025Opera North has built a formidable reputation for creating original and provocative interpretations of opera classics, and their new take...
Death and the King’s Horseman Tom Rutter 06/02/2025First staged in 1976, Death and the King’s Horseman is a fictionalised retelling of events that took place in Nigeria...
Second Best Anna Levitt-Malik. 05/02/2025‘This isn’t the story of how I came second. It’s the story of someone putting me first.’ While the play...
My Mother’s Funeral: The Show Olivia Hurton 02/02/2025The cost-of-living crisis fills inches of newspaper columns but where is the discussion about the cost of dying? Last year,...
The Bowie Show Tim Hochstrasser 26/01/2025This was my first visit to the Golder’s Green Hippodrome, a hulking venue the size of the Coliseum, and originally...
Moby Dick Owen Davies 26/01/2025This production – part of the London International Mime Festival – is by the French-Norwegian theatre company, Plexus Polaire. To...
