Wild Rose Ben Reiss 15/03/2025Who’s ever heard of a country singer from Glasgow? Wild Rose ensures its audience will leave the Royal Lyceum with...
Donizetti & Friends – Spyres, Lemieux & Zappa Tim Hochstrasser 13/03/2025It is not often that you return to a concert hall the next day for another five-star performance, but this...
Reviewer's Rating The Glass Menagerie Olivia Hurton 13/03/2025In his production notes for The Glass Menagerie, playwright Tennessee Williams boldly called for a ‘new, plastic theatre which must...
Reviewer's Rating Macbeth Olivia Hurton 12/03/2025In the English Touring Theatre’s production of Macbeth, it is not just the bodies on stage that are mangled. Shakespeare’s...
The Magic Flute Tim Hochstrasser 07/03/2025In writing opera reviews you often find yourself lamenting the lack of respect or even belief that the director has...
The Score Sofía Danailov Esteban 01/03/2025Some encounters shape history; others shake the very essence of what it means to create. The Score is both. Brian...
Backstroke Nicole Pezza 23/02/2025How much of a mother is there in motherhood? It is a role scrutinized more than any other, burdened with...
Boys from the Blackstuff Ashvin Vasudeva 19/02/2025Boys from the Blackstuff powerfully captures the mood and consequences of economic decline in 1980s Liverpool. The play is unapologetically...
Reviewer's Rating Avalona, A Musical Legend Austin Fimmano 11/03/2025You never know which doors in New York will transport you to a different world, and at The Sanctuary at...
Carmen Miho Uchida 03/03/2025Àlex Ollé’s 2021 production of Carmen has returned to the New National Theatre Tokyo after four years. This interpretation is...
Reviewer's Rating DAS RHEINGOLD Josi Steinfeld 02/03/2025Davide Livermore’s original new production is set in 1940’s and is excitingly visualised by D-Wok’s videos. Sets created with stunning...
Eine florentinische Tragödie/Gianni Schicchi Miho Uchida 05/02/2025Jun Aguni’s spectacular Florentine double bill, Eine florentinische Tragödie (A Florentine Tragedy) and Gianni Schicchi, made a triumphant return after...
Reviewer's Rating Scissorhandz Julie Peakman 07/02/2025As we enter the auditorium, Susie Quatro’s ‘Devil Gate Drive’ with its lyrics ‘Come Alive’ is playing and I think...
The Flying Dutchman at the New National Theatre Tokyo Miho Uchida 28/01/2025Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman draws inspiration from the composer’s stormy sea voyage from Riga to London in 1839. In...
0 Nadya Menuhin in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson 25/02/2025Nadya Menuhin, a literary agent with a rich history of work in the theatre world, has adapted The Passenger into...
Benjamin Bernheim – Recital Josi Steinfeld 12/02/2025Benjamin Bernheim, 39, is one of the finest tenors of his generation, particularly in French lyric roles. With his slim...
