Bright Places Ben Reiss 07/11/2024At its best, theatre allows us to inhabit the lives of others. It lets us see the world through other...
Reviewer's Rating The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Jad Adams 07/11/2024This production, sub-titled An Unordinary Musical, is based on Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 short story from which it diverges in location...
Maria de Rudenz Owen Davies 06/11/2024Famed as Donizetti’s greatest flop after its premier in Venice in 1838, Maria de Rudenz is given a rare production...
The Pirates of Penzance Richard Voyce 06/11/2024What a cast! What a score! What a production! What am I talking about? Lloyd Webber’s latest hit? A flashy...
Burnt-Up Love Marc Berman 06/11/2024The opening of Burnt-Up Love at the Finborough Theatre delves into the visceral, sometimes morally ambiguous dimensions of parental love....
Reviewers Rating MASO SCHISM Julie Peakman 06/11/2024Two young women are working out in a gym, causing and feeling pain, but in a good way. Katie and...
Opera Rara: Donizetti & Friends Tim Hochstrasser 05/11/2024Opera Rara won the award for ‘best record label’ at the last Gramophone awards, and on the strength of this latest...
Barcelona Olivia Hurton 05/11/2024For those in search of a holiday, Bess Wohl’s Barcelona – a tale of sun, sadness and suspicious strangers – offers only the...
The Other Place Wilder Gutterson 03/11/2024There is a minute-long stretch during The Other Place when all the actors have vacated the stage, and we are...
The Buddha of Suburbia Olivia Hurton 02/11/2024Emma Rice’s RSC adaptation of The Buddha of Suburbia proves that the story of Karim Amir, a mixed-race teenager longing for...
