Guildhall Symphony Orchestra: Bartok to Zemlinsky Tim Hochstrasser 26/11/2023Just as in its choice of opera repertory, the Guildhall School prefers to walk on the wilder side of orchestral...
Reviewer's Rating Oh, What A Lovely War! Tim Hochstrasser 25/11/2023It is sixty years now since the first production of ‘Oh, What A Lovely War’, one of the stand-out artistic...
Reviewer's Rating The Mongol Khan Tim Hochstrasser 23/11/2023Epic accounts of Asiatic history, crammed with extravagant dance, music and costumes, sweep through London theatres with some regularity; and...
Reviewer's Rating Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen Tim Hochstrasser 20/11/2023While many shows that succeed at the Edinburgh Fringe later transfer to London, it is by no means certain that...
Reviewer's Rating Respighi: Opera Double Bill Tim Hochstrasser 17/11/2023As so often, the Guildhall School is going where the leading opera houses fear to tread. This term’s opera production...
Radio Gaga Julie Peakman 15/11/2023This is not a musical but a music tribute to Queen. At first I thought I was going to see...
Reviewer's Rating Made in Chelsea Tim Hochstrasser 13/11/2023It is not often these days that a new comedy arrives that self-consciously models itself on Wilde and Wodehouse. On...
Nineteen Gardens Julie Peakman 12/11/2023After one and half years, two lovers meet up again. At first it is unclear why they are bothering, but...
Seize the Cheese Jad Adams 07/11/2023Bizarre storylines for musicals are hardly new. W.S.Gilbert struggled on one about a magic lozenge; more successfully The Little Shop...
The Time Traveller’s Wife Jad Adams 03/11/2023The acclaimed book by Audrey Niffenegger which was made into a film and a TV series is now a West...