“What’s your name, constable?” asked the irascible Inspector Barlow. “Fancy … er, William Smith, sir.” “You think Leeds is centre of t’world, laddie, ...
This production of Wagner’s Lohengrin by Yuval Sharon - born in Chicago in 1979 to Israeli parents and Bayreuth’s first American director - first saw ...
This famous opera by Handel, which premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on 16 April 1735, has always been one of the favourites of the baroq...
Flamboyant and a wonderfully quirky director Barrie Kosky’s innovative production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg was first seen at Bayreuth in 2017...
The new production of Kiss Me, Kate at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury is quite simply a triumph. I cannot begin to praise it enough. Of course, it i...
It is 10:30 AM in Avignon. At this time of the morning, the city is still calm. But at the Théâtre des Gémeaux, it is crowded. Everyone wants to (re)d...
How can playwright Tom Stoppard play with Shakespeare? With words, with time, with a soccer ball (yes, there is one). In two interconnected one-act p...
It is quite rare to see works of science-fiction adapted to the stage these days: it is not considered as a noble genre, and the development of large ...
Any visit to Glyndebourne is an event, not solely a performance. Undoubtedly, it is not only its highly-rated opera, but also Glyndebourne’s astoundin...
A dark vein of humour runs through a modernized Peter Gynt at the National Theatre as our hot-headed 22-year-old main character fantasizes his way thr...
