The Years Olivia Hurton 10/02/2025A woman’s body is not an easy thing to live in. This is the point made with luminous force and...
The Marriage of Figaro Owen Davies 09/02/2025Despite all the pressures that Welsh National Opera (WNO) is facing, their revival of The Marriage of Figaro, in the...
Oedipus Olivia Hurton 08/02/2025In the Old Vic’s elemental new production of Oedipus, tragedy is a compulsive dance. The moves are predetermined and age-old:...
Mrs. President Ashvin Vasudeva 08/02/2025Mrs. President seeks to give a voice to Mary Lincoln, the often-overlooked wife of Abraham Lincoln. In doing so, the...
The Years Olivia Hurton 10/02/2025A woman’s body is not an easy thing to live in. This is the point made with luminous force and...
Oedipus Olivia Hurton 08/02/2025In the Old Vic’s elemental new production of Oedipus, tragedy is a compulsive dance. The moves are predetermined and age-old:...
The Flying Dutchman Owen Davies 06/02/2025Opera North has built a formidable reputation for creating original and provocative interpretations of opera classics, and their new take...
Second Best Anna Levitt-Malik. 05/02/2025‘This isn’t the story of how I came second. It’s the story of someone putting me first.’ While the play...
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...
La clemenza di Tito Josi Steinfeld 03/02/2025Mozart was commissioned to compose La Clemenza di Tito, (The Clemency of Titus), in 1791 by impresario Domenico Guardasoni in...
Othello Yael Shuv 03/02/2025Verdi’s 1887 opera, based on Shakespeare’s 1603 play, is a tragedy fueled by jealousy, suspicion, and masculine rage. In today’s...
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...
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...
Anna Popplewell & Olivia Hurton in conversation Olivia Hurton 09/01/2025“They’re no angels,” actress Anna Popplewell tells me wryly, speaking of Solange and Claire, the two maidservants at the centre...
Pavel Šporcl’s Magic Touch Rivka Jacobson 05/12/2024Pavel Šporcl in conversation with Rivka Jacobson An hour before Czech violin virtuoso Pavel Šporcl’s performance with the English Chamber...
