The Mountaintop Ben Reiss 05/06/2025The Mountaintop is writer Katori Hall’s imagining of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s last night alive before his assassination. It...
The Queen of Spades Tim Hochstrasser 03/06/2025The Queen of Spades/Pique Dame (1890) is a classic case of where literature and opera part company with independently successful results....
L’elisir d’amore David Buchler 02/06/2025Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore is often treated as the operatic equivalent of a chilled Aperol spritz – light, effervescent, and perfect...
Reviewers Rating The Frogs Julie Peakman 30/05/2025This is a comedy so funny it has lasted more than two thousand years. Aristophanes wrote the original in 405BC...
1536 Wilder Gutterson 28/05/2025Set in the year of the trial and beheading of Anne Boleyn, 1536 by Ava Pickett takes place not within...
Outpatient Tim Hochstrasser 25/05/2025This play had a successful first run in Edinburgh and has made several appearances since. It now comes to London...
Shucked Anna Levitt-Malik. 23/05/2025A new musical has cropped up at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and I’m all shucked up about it! On...
The Deep Blue Sea Olivia Hurton 22/05/2025Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea would make rich material for the column of an agony aunt as much as...
Rebellion, Resignation, and Survival in Ibsen, Chekhov, Rattigan, and Williams Rivka Jacobson 21/05/2025In the landscape of modern drama, few figures loom as poignantly as the woman on the verge — poised between...
Parsifal Tim Hochstrasser 21/05/2025This production is a first in a number of ways. It is the first time Wagner’s final opera has received...
