The Producers Mel Cooper 03/07/2015 I happen to have seen this show in its original productions in New York and London as well as the film of the musical version and the original 1967 ve...
Merchant of Venice Will Day-Brosnan 27/06/2015 Polly Findlay’s Merchant of Venice is a decidedly mixed bag, like the giant pendulum which swings at the back of the stage, it moves from the ridiculo...
Othello Will Day-Brosnan 26/06/2015 Iqbal Khan’s production of Othello has a deep split running through its middle. The first half is expansive and fast moving with the set changing flui...
Studying Hamlet Nicola Watkinson 25/06/2015 Performed in a church in Shoreditch, with the audience sitting on pews only feet from the actors, this is an innovative and intimate exploration of Ha...
Intermezzo Owen Davies 12/06/2015 This is a difficult opera to like. Strauss wrote his great operas between 1905 and the start of the Great War – after 1914 he struggled to find the su...
Calamity Jane Mel Cooper 10/06/2015 I went to see this worried that the stage version would be overshadowed by the classic Doris Day/Howard Keel film and their performances. Certainly, t...
Madame Butterfly James Holloway 10/06/2015 Northern Ballet’s tour is a double billing of technical brilliance and dramatic tragedy The evening starts with Perpetuum Mobile, which is essentia...
Lessness Rebecca Coates 10/06/2015 A dramatic reading of one of Beckett's lesser-known works, Lessness addresses many of the preoccupations found in his plays. Time, cycles of events an...
Waiting for Godot Rebecca Coates 06/06/2015 Waiting for Godot exists in an almost surrealist time space, and sets can sometimes be the making or breaking of a production: whether you can believe...
Temple Rebecca Coates 31/05/2015 The Donmar consistently demonstrates some of the most beautiful set design in the West End, transforming the space every production, and Temple is no ...
