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La Bohème

Ziyu Zhang 25/10/2025

Transposed to Paris’s Jazz Age of the 1920s, André Barbe and Renaud Doucet’s production of La Bohème revives Puccini’s theatrical...

Mistero Buffo

Yuan Liu 17/07/2025

Dario Fo’s Mistero Buffo, a seminal work of political theatre, finds new life in a vibrant Scots adaptation by Joseph...

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Anna Karenina

Ben Reiss 19/05/2023

Writer Lesley Hart and director Polina Kalinina bring plenty of zest and visual panache to this ambitious production of Russian...

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The Meaning of Zong

Ben Reiss 17/04/2022

In a massacre aboard the slave ship Zong – 132 women, men, and children perished in chains in the Caribbean sea in...

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Pinocchio

Enza De Francisci 16/12/2019

To date, the most popular Italian literary text to be translated worldwide is not by Dante, Boccaccio or Petrarch, but...

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Nora: A Doll’s House

Enza De Francisci 03/04/2019

Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is a play which has had audiences speak about for centuries since its first performance in...

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The Taming of the Shrew

Marine Furet 08/03/2019

Jo Clifford’s vital re-envisioning of The Taming of the Shrew examines the darker underbelly of current explorations of gender and...

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Stravinsky: The Fairy’s Kiss and The Rite of Spring

S.A. McCracken 16/10/2017

When Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring was first performed in Paris in 1913, the score and choreography were so controversial...

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Faithful Ruslan: The Story of a Guard Dog

Enza De Francisci 05/10/2017

Faithful Ruslan marks the centenary of the Russian revolution. To celebrate this occasion, Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre placed centre stage Stalin’s...

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Shackleton

Marine Furet 16/06/2017

From 1914 to 1917, the explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew went on an expedition to cross the Antarctic on board the Endurance.

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Kenrex

A Christmas Carol

Stick Man (Children Theatre)

Boogie on the Bones

Interviews

Louis Davison on The Poltergeist at Arcola Theatre

Michael Jamin – From Hollywood to Edinburgh

Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Ty Jones Looks to the Future

Power, Wit and Baroque: Sophie Gilpin on Her Bold New Pimpinone

Features

Wozzeck

Dead Man Walking

Anne Boleyn. The Musical

From Page to Stage: Yiddish Voices Behind Fiddler on the Roof

Insight

From Page to Stage: Yiddish Voices Behind Fiddler on the Roof

Beyond the Libretto: How Music Tells Women’s Stories in Opera

Rebellion, Resignation, and Survival in Ibsen, Chekhov, Rattigan, and Williams

Lettice & Lovage – in aid of Alzheimer’s Research UK

Festivals

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L’Italiana in Algeri
Rossini Opera Festival 2025

La Cambiale di Matrimonio and Soirées Musicales
Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro – 2025

Zelmira
Rossini Opera Festival 2025

La Bohème

Mistero Buffo

Anna Karenina

The Meaning of Zong

Pinocchio

Nora: A Doll’s House

The Taming of the Shrew

Stravinsky: The Fairy’s Kiss and The Rite of Spring

Faithful Ruslan: The Story of a Guard Dog

Shackleton