Personal Values Tim Hochstrasser 25/04/2025What strikes you first about this new play in Hampstead Downstairs is the set. The work of Naomi Dawson, it...
Richard II Wilder Gutterson 24/04/2025The tinkling piano music that underscores the opening moments of Nicholas Hytner’s modern-dress production of Shakespeare’s Richard II is strongly...
SOIR NOIR: A Nightclub Confidential Sofia Moran 20/04/2025Set in the warm, candle-lit intimacy of The Crazy Coqs in London, SOIR NOIR: A Nightclub Confidential invites its audience...
The Inseparables Rivka Jacobson 18/04/2025Grace-Joy Howarth’s adaptation of Simone de Beauvoir’s posthumously published novella The Inseparables is a poignant, beautifully rendered exploration of love,...
Hot Chicks, Swansea Grand Theatre Rhys John Edwards 14/04/2025(Reviewed at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff – ahead of its run at Swansea Grand Theatre from 16th – 25th...
Supersonic Man Richard Voyce 14/04/2025Supersonic Man, the new musical with book, music, and lyrics by Chris Burgess that has just opened at Southwark Playhouse...
Reviewers Rating Sisters Julie Peakman 11/04/2025The play opens onto a 1970’s living-room of a Northern council house fitted out with sofa, coffee table, standing lamps,...
Peter Grimes Owen Davies 08/04/2025At its best, Peter Grimes is one of the most powerful works on the opera stage – and with a...
La Cenerentola (Cinderella) Owen Davies 07/04/2025This splendid production of Rossini’s operatic version of ‘Cinderella’ displays all the strengths that make Hampstead Garden Opera such an...
The Importance of Being Oscar Olivia Hurton 04/04/2025Oscar Wilde once claimed that ‘to become a work of art is the object of living’. No doubt he would...
