Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria Tim Hochstrasser 11/06/2026 274Ahead of its residency at the Grimeborn Festival, Ensemble OrQuesta offers a couple of Academy production at the Cockpit Theatre...
Giulio Cesare Soyoon Koo 10/06/2026 821Arriving at the Grange estate for Giulio Cesare, one feels that the setting is a sprawling, verdant prologue to the...
Allegra Tim Hochstrasser 09/06/2026 711About twenty years ago I went to the Old Vic for a performance of Alladin where the big attraction was...
Mass Wilder Gutterson 07/06/2026 472The title of Fran Kranz’s explosive and powerful play Mass will undoubtedly conjure images of a church service or a...
Orlando Josi Steinfeld 06/06/2026 687Handel’s Orlando, inspired by Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, centres on a heroic knight driven to destructive jealousy. Orlando loves Angelica, Queen...
Krishna Sara Tiron 06/06/2026 629In the English countryside, Grange Park Opera turns a performance into a wider summer ritual. Arrival through the grounds, the...
High Society Tim Hochstrasser 06/06/2026 464It 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 05/06/2026 1037There 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 02/06/2026 761Verdi’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 31/05/2026 639Garsington Opera – now at the Getty family’s Wormsley estate near Oxford – goes from strength to strength. After opening...
