The Gathered Leaves Lara Inglis-Jones 21/08/2025The Gathered Leaves is a play which, at the outset, feels like a theme played out on stage many times...
The Enormous Crocodile: The Musical Marlow Getz 20/08/2025When a beloved children’s story is adapted for the stage, the litmus test is always the children. Do they laugh?...
Sense & Sensibility. The Musical Julie Peakman 20/08/2025Wow it’s an opera! The opening song jolts our attention as players start to sing ‘Its Society’. The title of...
Mary, Queen of Scots Ben Reiss 18/08/2025The life of Mary, Queen of Scots lends itself to endless retelling, being an inherently dramatic tale of ambition, conflict...
Cabaret Wilder Gutterson 17/08/2025Rebecca Frecknall’s exciting staging of Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret once again proves her mastery in reanimating theatre classics. She exposes...
Eugene Onegin Olivia Hurton 17/08/2025Eugene Onegin tells the timeless love story of wanting what you can’t have. Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s opera, inspired by Alexander...
Book of Mountains and Seas Ben Reiss 15/08/2025Out of a deep black stage, the faces of six female singers appear, each lit from above with a single...
The Estate Wilder Gutterson 10/08/2025Shaan Sahota’s The Estate, now running at the National’s Dorfman Theatre, is a remarkably assured piece of writing, particularly for...
Romeo & Juliet Julie Peakman 08/08/2025An explosion of dancing disco bodies on the stage introduces us to this modern take on Romeo and Juliet. Techno...
Beethoven: I Shall Hear in Heaven Olivia Hurton 07/08/2025It is surely one of the cruellest fates for any artist to have the very faculties that make their art...
