House of Games Tim Hochstrasser 13/05/2025With Dealer’s Choice playing at the Donmar, and this production opening at Hampstead, the risks and temptations of gambling are...
Faygele Lara Inglis-Jones 12/05/2025Faygele, currently running at London’s Marylebone Theatre, feels less like a traditional play and more like a confessional. Written by...
Jephtha – An Oratorio in Three Acts Josi Steinfeld 11/05/2025For his final oratorio, Handel chose the Old Testament story of Jephtha, the Israelite leader who vows to sacrifice the...
Port Talbot Gotta Banksy Rhys John Edwards 09/05/2025I’ve never been much of a fan of verbatim theatre. Arrogantly, I always felt it was a bit like cheating....
House of Games Tim Hochstrasser 13/05/2025With Dealer’s Choice playing at the Donmar, and this production opening at Hampstead, the risks and temptations of gambling are...
Jephtha – An Oratorio in Three Acts Josi Steinfeld 11/05/2025For his final oratorio, Handel chose the Old Testament story of Jephtha, the Israelite leader who vows to sacrifice the...
Ben and Imo Owen Davies 30/04/2025When I first heard about this play I must admit that I thought it might only appeal to those (like...
The Inseparables Rivka Jacobson 18/04/2025Grace-Joy Howarth’s adaptation of Simone de Beauvoir’s posthumously published novella The Inseparables is a poignant, beautifully rendered exploration of love,...
Reviewer's Rating A Streetcar Named Desire Austin Fimmano 28/03/2025The scene has been set for director Rebecca Frecknall’s A Streetcar Named Desire to dazzle New York. After a sweep...
La bohème Yael Shuv 26/03/2025directorial liberties—nor should it. Puccini’s tale of starving artists in 1830s Paris is best served with a faithful touch. The...
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 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...
Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Ty Jones Looks to the Future Austin Fimmano 11/05/2025On the evening of Friday, May 2nd, arts groups across the country received a jarring email: their grant money, allocated...
Power, Wit and Baroque: Sophie Gilpin on Her Bold New Pimpinone Rivka Jacobson 29/04/2025As part of the Jette Parker Artists Programme, director Sophie Gilpin tackles a rarely staged Baroque comedy — reframing its...
