Reviewer's rating L’Elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) Mel Cooper 02/07/2023A hit show of 1832 has been given some of the updating that must convey to its audience something of...
Reviewer's rating. The Bartered Bride Mel Cooper 02/07/2023Garsington has revived its brilliant and fizzing production of The Bartered Bride by Smetana and it’s just as delightful and...
Reviewer's rating A Strange Loop Richard Voyce 02/07/2023Drama is, by its very nature, one of the few opportunities most of us will ever get to experience life...
Reviewer's Rating Song From Far Away Tim Hochstrasser 01/07/2023This elegiac but rigorously unsentimental play with music received fine reviews in Manchester at the start of the year and...
Reviewer's Rating Stumped Tim Hochstrasser 29/06/2023‘Stumped’ is one of those plays that works on different levels, and indeed it is that cannily calibrated multi-layered appeal...
Reviewer's rating Made in (India) Britain Paul Richards 29/06/2023Is there a more beautiful and expressive language than British Sign Language (BSL)? The Romance languages have their melodic charms,...
Then, Now and Next Jad Adams 29/06/2023The production of this new musical cuts back and forward in time between scenes of her relationship with two men...
Reviewer's rating Candide Owen Davies 25/06/2023Described in the programme by the director as “a hot mess of a piece”, Bernstein’s Candide has had a chequered...
Reviewer's rating Mrs Doubtfire Richard Voyce 23/06/2023I don’t know how much they’re paying Jerry Zaks, the director of the musical Mrs Doubtfire which has just opened...
Reviewer's rating Werther Josi Steinfeld 23/06/2023Massenet’s Werther is based on Goethe’s epistolary novel, ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’, published in 1774. Some, myself included, regard...
