Allegra Tim Hochstrasser 09/06/2026About twenty years ago I went to the Old Vic for a performance of Alladin where the big attraction was...
Mass Wilder Gutterson 07/06/2026The title of Fran Kranz’s explosive and powerful play Mass will undoubtedly conjure images of a church service or a...
Orlando Josi Steinfeld 06/06/2026Handel’s Orlando, inspired by Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, centres on a heroic knight driven to destructive jealousy. Orlando loves Angelica, Queen...
Krishna Sara Tiron 06/06/2026In the English countryside, Grange Park Opera turns a performance into a wider summer ritual. Arrival through the grounds, the...
High Society Tim Hochstrasser 06/06/2026It is not uniformly the case that every play or film should or needs to be a musical, but when...
Reviewers Rating You’ve Gone Quiet Julie Peakman 05/06/2026There is a joke from the 1970s that runs ‘When God created people She put in a joke: She created...
La Traviata Garsington Opera Festival Rivka Jacobson 02/06/2026Verdi’s La Traviata remains one of opera’s most moving explorations of love, sacrifice and mortality. In this Garsington production, director...
Der Rosenkavalier Owen Davies 31/05/2026Garsington Opera – now at the Getty family’s Wormsley estate near Oxford – goes from strength to strength. After opening...
Krapp’s Last Tape Olivia Hurton 31/05/2026Beckett was surely having fun when he conceived of Krapp’s Last Tape (1958). He christened his titular character with a...
Once Ziyu Zhang 29/05/2026Enda Walsh once described Girl as the “driving force” of Once and the one who “would change everything”. That is...
