Reviewer's rating Eugene Onegin Tim Hochstrasser 03/06/2022Tchaikovsky very much wanted to write opera for adults about real characters, avoiding implausible operatic devices and melodramatic conceits. In...
Reviewer's rating Dictating to the Estate Emma Burnell 02/06/2022Some people just don’t matter. I mean they should. Especially to those who are elected and employed to serve them....
Reviewer's rating We Will Rock You Richard McKee 01/06/2022If you are going to this show, be sure to take earplugs with you. Not because the music is bad. ...
Reviewer's rating The Dance of Death Rosie Tricks 01/06/2022Currently at Bath’s Theatre Royal is The Dance of Death, a production adapted from Strindberg’s original play by Rebecca Lenkiewicz....
Reviewer's rating Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year 2022 Tim Hochstrasser 01/06/2022Inaugurated in 2007, and back after a two-year break, this competition now attracts entries from over 300 singers, 12 of...
Renewal Tim Hochstrasser 31/05/2022For most musicians the last few years have been a bleak experience of lost work, a maze of paperwork before...
Reviewer's rating Samson et Dalila Rivka Jacobson 29/05/2022The Book of Judges devotes three chapters to the story of Samson. The composer, Camille Saint-Saëns, and the librettist Ferdinand...
Reviewer's Rating Grease The Musical Grace Creaton-Barber 29/05/2022The likeness to the film is uncanny – adults masquerading as teenagers, casually draped over scaffolding and lounging on school...
Reviewer's rating Legally Blonde Joshua Bolchover 27/05/2022The Open Air Theatre has attempted to rejuvenate and retouch the 2001 blockbuster while keeping its pinky, glitzy, easy-going appeal...
Reviewer's rating The Father and the Assassin Rivka Jacobson 25/05/2022On 30 January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi, 78, was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, aged 38. In this historical drama, Anupama Chandrasekhar offers the...
