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...
Redcliffe Richard Voyce 29/05/2026There’s emotion aplenty in the new musical Redcliffe, which has just opened at Southwark Playhouse’s main stage. I say new,...
La Fanciulla del West Josi Steinfeld 28/05/2026Opera Holland Park opened its 30th season with Puccini’s less frequently performed La Fanciulla del West. Commissioned by the Metropolitan...
Un Turco in Italia Josi Steinfeld 27/05/2026European opera from the 17th through 19th centuries frequently exploited fascination with — and anxiety about — the Ottoman Empire....
