Reviewer's Rating Rock ‘N’ Roll Tim Hochstrasser 13/12/2023This play was originally produced at the Royal Court back in 2006 and now returns to Hampstead at Stoppard’s suggestion....
Reviewer's rating Women’s Words Natalie Dessay And Philippe Cassard Josi Steinfeld 09/12/2023Natalie Dessay was one of the wonders of the opera world. Who can forget her ‘Doll’s Song’ Contes d’Hoffman) in...
Reviewer rating Aberdeen Josi Steinfeld 09/12/2023In 1994, one of the world’s grunge icons, Kurt Cobain, shot himself in Aberdeen, Washington, his hometown. He was 27,...
Reviewer's rating Pantomime: Rapunzel Owen Davies 09/12/2023Theatre Peckham is the best sort of local theatre, rooted in the local community and putting on shows that both...
Reviewer's Rating Talking About The Fire Tim Hochstrasser 09/12/2023With the recent intense coverage of ‘Oppenheimer’, nuclear weapons are very much back under public scrutiny; so there is certainly...
Reviewer's Rating Pacific Overtures Tim Hochstrasser 08/12/2023‘Pacific Overtures’ was written in 1976, during Sondheim’s golden years, just after ‘A Little Night Music’ and before ‘Sweeney Todd’....
The Homecoming Hal Wooliscroft 06/12/2023Matthew Dunster’s production of Pinter’s iconic play retains all of its troubling power, whilst managing to give its sole female...
Reviewer's Rating Dreaming and Drowning Tim Hochstrasser 05/12/2023The intimate space of the Bush studio theatre is currently home to a fine, taut, piece of new writing by...
Reviewer's rating Cavalleria Rusticana/ Pagliacci Josi Steinfeld 05/12/2023Cavalleria Rusticana was a late entry for an 1888 competition for young Italian composers who had not staged a performance,...
Reviewer's Rating Taming Who? Tim Hochstrasser 04/12/2023I have written here before of the remarkable and under-appreciated work done by Inter-Mission Youth Theatre, and their latest production,...