Reviewer's Rating Richard II Austin Fimmano 20/03/2019The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe is well-known for its single most defining feature: the cozy wooden theater, built...
Reviewer's Rating The Magic Flute Austin Fimmano 16/03/2019The Magic Flute returns to the English National Opera this week to much applause. The revival of the dircetor Simon...
Reviewer's Rating Idomeneo Owen Davies 15/03/2019English Touring Opera is an indispensable part of the opera scene in the UK. Both their touring schedule – more...
Reviewer's Rating Blood Knot Isabella Waldron 13/03/2019Athol Fugard’s play Blood Knot receives an important revisit from director Matthew Xia at the Orange Tree Theatre in a...
Reviewer's Rating Feel Emma Burnell 13/03/2019Good fringe theatre goes one of two ways. Either it’s so out there that it shocks you, or it’s small,...
Reviewer's Rating Midsummer Night’s Dream Tim Hochstrasser 13/03/2019Britten is often thought of as a precocious composer, enjoying a brilliant success as a young man, especially in opera,...
Reviewer's Rating Elizabeth I Tim Hochstrasser 13/03/2019Among Rossini’s 39 operas ‘Elizabeth, Queen of England’ is unaccountably neglected. It marked perhaps the most important turning point of...
Reviewer's Rating Circa Tim Hochstrasser 13/03/2019After successful outings in Amsterdam and at The Vaults, this debut play comes to Islington for almost a month in...
Reviewer's rating The Turn of the Screw Owen Davies 11/03/2019Bury Court Opera has surpassed its own high standards with this superb version of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw....
Reviewer's rating Lorna Dallas “Stages” Richard McKee 11/03/2019“Priscilla Perfect” – that is the moniker attached to one of Lorna Dallas’ many roles on the stage, and while...