Waiting for Godot Ziyu Zhang 26/02/2026The meanings of Samuel Beckett’s timeless masterpiece Waiting for Godot are never settled. This remains true in Dominic Hill’s revival,...
Bird Grove Olivia Hurton 25/02/2026To watch Alexi Kaye Campbell’s Bird Grove is to spend two hours contemplating how to make a literary genius. Part...
Iolanthe Owen Davies 22/02/2026Charles Court Opera (CCO) is now the company to go to for the best Gilbert and Sullivan. This production of...
Man & Boy Tim Hochstrasser 22/02/2026This play is rarely produced, and the explanation for that rests rather with the circumstances of its debut rather than...
The Story of Peer Gynt Olivia Hurton 20/02/2026At a time of rampant individualism, the story of Peer Gynt comes to us as a cautionary tale about selfhood....
Reviewer's rating What I’d Be Jad Adams 20/02/2026What I’d Be starts with two girls sitting on a park bench, aged 15 and 18. Things are not right...
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Marc Berman 17/02/2026Which crime deserves the ultimate punishment – cold blooded murder or failing to pay the bar tab? For the citizens...
2:22 – A Ghost Story Rhys John Edwards 17/02/2026I didn’t know an awful lot about ‘2:22 – A Ghost Story’, bar the theatrical snobbery that seems to follow...
Peter Grimes Owen Davies 16/02/2026It is hard to believe that Opera North has had this production of Britten’s Peter Grimes sitting in its warehouse...
I’m Sorry Prime Minister Lara Inglis-Jones 16/02/2026Arriving at I’m Sorry Prime Minister without any familiarity with the original television series, expectations are modest. The main point...
