Afterglow Richard Voyce 14/06/2019A well-written play can have the power to transport you from your tawdry, hum-drum existence, drawing you in and creating...
Reviewer’s Rating The JOY of Theatre Agnes Carrington-Windo 12/06/2019Disabled performers and their experiences are absurdly underrepresented in theatre, and much excellent performance therefore remains all but invisible. Fortunately,...
Reviewer's Rating Das Rheingold Mel Cooper 10/06/2019The new Longborough Opera Festival production of Das Rheingold approximates, within the “given” of its setting and budget, just about...
Reviewer's Rating The Diary of One Who Disappeared Shadi Seifouri 08/06/2019Burdened by a forbidden muse, Leos Janacek’s 1919 song cycle, The Diary of One Who Disappeared, serves as an allegoric...
Reviewer's rating Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) Tim Hochstrasser 08/06/2019This production represents Opera Holland Park at its best in making a fully persuasive case for an opera that often...
reviewer's rating Manon Lescaut Shadi Seifouri 06/06/2019Opera Holland Park, famed for its nuanced take on opera outdoors, opened its summer season with Puccini’s pivotal 1893 opera,...
Reviewer's Rating Napoli, Brooklyn Mel Cooper 06/06/2019I liked Napoli, Brooklyn. I found it interesting, though in the end it just didn’t quite add up for me....
Reviewer's Rating The Provoked Wife Mel Cooper 06/06/2019The Provoked Wife by John Vanbrugh is given a production that it truly deserves at the RSC, pivoting cleverly between...
Reviewer's Rating Born to Mince Nicholas Potter 04/06/2019This year the empress of smut Julian Clary has returned to strut onstage with his aptly named comedy tour Born...
reviewer's rating Tosca Rivka Jacobson 03/06/2019Vittorio Grigolo’s performance of ‘E Lucevan le Stelle’ as Cavaradossi moved me to tears as never before in this production...