Monstering The Rocketman Richard Voyce 07/02/2026There’s a common phrase that goes something along the lines of ‘if you can remember the 1960’s, you weren’t there’....
Ballad Lines Owen Davies 06/02/2026This glorious show is labelled “a folk musical”, and the description fits beautifully. It tells the stories of a line...
★ ★ ★ ★ Chiten Theatre presents The Gambler Soyoon Koo 06/02/2026The Coronet Theatre’s latest guests, Kyoto’s Chiten Theatre, have a take on Dostoevsky’s The Gambler that arrives like a hand...
The Rat Trap Tim Hochstrasser 05/02/2026This new-old play turned out to be an unexpected suprise. I thought I knew the Coward-canon all the way through,...
American Psycho Olivia Hurton 04/02/2026Rupert Goold’s thirteen-year tenure as artistic director of the Almeida Theatre in Islington has seen it transform into a leading...
Mozart’s Requiem: Listening Back to Da Ponte’s Lost World Rivka Jacobson 31/01/2026During the Barbican performance of Mozart’s Requiem, there was a moment — brief and unanticipated — when the music unsettled...
Bigre/’FishBowl’ Tim Hochstrasser 30/01/2026The test of a great mime show is not that you don’t need the words but rather when you realise...
Cosi fan Tutte Tim Hochstrasser 27/01/2026Of all three collaborations between Mozart and Da Ponte this opera is perhaps the most tricky to bring off successfully...
Tell Me Tim Hochstrasser 26/01/2026When I am in Tate Modern I often stand in front of a painting by Mondrian and experiment with my...
Reviewer's rating Beautiful Little Fool Jad Adams 25/01/2026The scene is set with an archive with walls of books, papers, boxes and table lamps. Here Scottie Fitzgerald, daughter...
