Reviewer's rating A Midsummer Night’s Dream Jad Adams 07/09/2025A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays through it is rarely performed in its entirety. It...
Emerald Storm Julie Peakman 04/09/2025With an obvious title for an evening of Irish entertainment, it would be expected that perhaps a mixture of Irish...
The Pitchfork Disney Olivia Hurton 04/09/2025When Philip Ridley’s The Pitchfork Disney premiered in 1991, there were discussions about whether a nurse should be on standby...
Reviewer's Rating It Never Rains Jad Adams 03/09/2025This smart family drama takes as its title the old saw ‘It never rains but it pours’ to introduce us...
Semele Soyoon Koo 30/08/2025Handel’s Semele (1744) was met with controversy at its premiere for presenting secular opera in the guise of sacred oratorio....
Nye Rhys John Edwards 27/08/2025I’ve always despised pride by association. That borrowed sense of triumph usually expressed by armchair patriots during sporting events. The...
Don Giovanni Wilder Gutterson 27/08/2025The Arcola Theatre’s smallish, airless black box didn’t dampen the commitment of The Ensemble OrQuesta Company’s minimalist production of Mozart’s...
Interview Wilder Gutterson 24/08/2025How will Pierre (Robert Sean Leonard), a middle-aged, serious political journalist, fare when assigned to interview Katya (Paten Hughes), a...
Reviewer's rating Lightbulbs Jad Adams 23/08/2025Two androgynous figures stand in the centre of the stage, they wear grey tops and billowing trousers that look like...
Faustus in Africa! Ben Reiss 23/08/2025The legend of Faust – an ambitious man dissatisfied with life who strikes a deal with the Devil, who serves...
