The Importance of Being Earnest Wilder Gutterson 18/12/2024When the opening scene of a production of The Importance of Being Earnest reveals a well-muscled man begowned in a...
Bryn’s Christmas René Weis FRSA 17/12/2024It was an evening of festive magic, of carols sung in English and Welsh, and of popular Christmas songs and...
La Rondine (The Swallow) Josi Steinfeld 16/12/2024As Puccini’s centenary year continues, the world has been treated to a wide array of his works, and La Rondine,...
A Christmas Carol Rhys John Edwards 16/12/2024Gary Owen’s adaptation of ‘A Christmas Carol’ was first revived and rejigged by director Joe Murphy in 2021, but as...
The Last Days of Liz Truss Ashvin Vasudeva 13/12/2024The Last Days of Liz Truss is a hilarious satire that imagines the former Prime Minister as a romantic megalomaniac...
Montague’s Millions Julie Peakman 13/12/2024This offering is a delightful Christmas romp with tinges of Bertie and Wooster repartee, with an added titled lady for...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tim Hochstrasser 13/12/2024In recent years I have reviewed many productions of this play (and Britten’s opera derived from it) and mostly in...
The Little Foxes Olivia Hurton 13/12/2024Lillian Hellman is remembered as an inveterate liar. It was said that in her writing, which encompassed plays and quasi-biographies,...
Shakespeare Revisited Tim Hochstrasser 09/12/2024The National Opera Studio, supported by our main opera companies, runs a Young Artists course each year for singers on...
The Christmas Thing Wilder Gutterson 08/12/2024The premise of The Christmas Thing, playing at the Seven Dials Playhouse until 21 December, is that the audience is...
