Reviewer's Rating The Importance of Being Earnest Mel Cooper 29/05/2019The new production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at the Watermill Theatre near Newbury is another success...
Reviewer's Rating Andrea Chénier Tim Hochstrasser 28/05/2019When this opera had its first performance at La Scala in 1896 the ‘verismo’ style of operatic writing was at...
Reviewer's Rating The Damnation of Faust Tim Hochstrasser 28/05/2019‘La damnation de Faust’ is, even by Berlioz’ standards, an odd work. Neither opera nor oratorio, but a self-styled ‘dramatic...
reviewer's rating Phaedra Rivka Jacobson 28/05/2019This concert-opera (konzertoper) piece must be heard a number of times before one can grasp some of the music’s intricate...
Reviewer's Rating Fuck You Pay Me Nicole Kent 23/05/2019Fuck You Pay Me is a show made for strippers, by strippers with the aim of challenging our perception of...
Reviewer's Rating Death of a Salesman Nicholas Potter 16/05/2019Arthur Miller’s classic American play, focusing on the harshness of living in a dog-eat-dog capitalist society, receives fresh treatment from...
Reviewer's Rating Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and Other Love Songs) Mel Cooper 16/05/2019Macheath was conceived as a loveable rogue, a highwayman type, in the original John Gay send-up of opera, politics, society...
Reviewer's Rating Club Tropicana the Musical Mel Cooper 14/05/2019I try to accept “the given” of anything I see. But I am afraid that this time I simply cannot...
Reviewer's Rating Small Island Nicholas Potter 14/05/2019In this adaptation of Andrea Levy’s 2004 novel about the Windrush generation, the trials faced by native Jamaicans migrating to...
Reviewer's rating Henry V Emily Louizou 13/05/2019The Globe’s new production of Henry V certainly reminds us of how relevant Shakespeare’s play is today. At a time...
