Songs of the Bulbul Hafiza Butt 13/07/2026 553Aakash Odedra’s ‘Songs of the Bulbul’ is a truly remarkable show; a comprehensive exploration of that most ephemeral of things:...
Lear Ziyu Zhang 11/07/2026 459Shakespeare’s King Lear becomes a family tragedy first and a political one second in this modern adaptation. Reimagining Lear as...
Reviewer's rating Portrait of a Tom as a Young Neenan Jad Adams 10/07/2026 396Tom Neenan is a writer who through Covid redirected his creativity into portrait painting. Here in a one-man show he...
Reviewer's rating Richard III Jad Adams 09/07/2026 391Billed as ‘a visceral, dark tale of ambition’, this production gives that and then some. Richard III is one of...
Wife to James Whelan Olivia Hurton 06/07/2026 453Plays, it is sometimes argued, are transient things. They emerge from a particular socio-historic moment, coloured by all its prejudices...
Arcadia Rivka Jacobson 05/07/2026 476Some productions never quite leave you. I first saw Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia in Trevor Nunn’s celebrated 1993 National Theatre production....
Macbeth (opera) Josi Steinfeld 05/07/2026 710Verdi regarded Shakespeare’s Macbeth as “one of the greatest creations of man”, declaring: “If we cannot make something great out...
Eugene Onegin Josi Steinfeld 03/07/2026 437Tchaikovsky’s Pushkin-based opera traces Tatyana’s youthful infatuation with the worldly Onegin, his fatal duel with Lensky, and their devastating reunion...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Soyoon Koo 02/07/2026 1326“Are we all here?” As Quince asks the inaugural question, the line lands with an arch, modern self-awareness. As the...
Springwood Tim Hochstrasser 01/07/2026 372When did it become the fashion to ring the changes on play or a film so that each has to...
