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...
Reviewer's Rating The Starry Messenger Agnes Carrington-Windo 30/05/2019Anyone not familiar with Kenneth Lonergan might recognise Manchester by the Sea, for which he won Best Original Screenplay at...
Rutherford and Son Emma Burnell 29/05/2019Rutherford and Sons is a powerful deconstruction of how the intersection of class and patriarchy enabled weak men’s dominion over...
4 & 9 Hafiza Butt 29/05/2019Paintings of bodies may capture the lushness, frailty and decay of flesh. But if vitality means to be in motion...
Reviewer's Rating Amelie the Musical Phil Setren 29/05/2019Based on the popular Oscar nominated Film, Amelie is the musical telling of a young French woman who creates intricate...
Reviewer's Rating The Duchess (of Malfi) Ben Reiss 29/05/2019The Duchess (of Malfi) is writer/director Zinnie Harris’ modern take on John Webster’s bloody Jacobean revenge tragedy. It tells of...
