Reviewer's rating Jad Adams 09/10/2026Set in a hospital room in 1950, we watch as George Orwell faces his imminent death aged 46. Mark Stratford...
De Profundis Wilder Gutterson 07/10/2026The two years that Oscar Wilde spent incarcerated in Reading Gaol for an illegal homosexual relationship marked a profound shift...
In the Dark Lennon Hu 19/09/2026Sitting in the medieval stone sanctuary of St Bartholomew the Great for In the Dark, I felt a surge of...
The Seven Deadly Sins / The Human Voice Josi Steinfeld 18/09/2026Argentinian-Italian director Alejandro Bonatto presents Anna (The Seven Deadly Sins) and Elle (The Human Voice) as the same woman at...
The School for Wives Sara Tiron 16/09/2026Molière’s The School for Wives is built around an irresistibly comic premise. Arnolphe, terrified of being cuckolded, has raised the...
The Children Lennon Hu 13/09/2026Nuclear power can be both violent and passive: fission or decay. We humans can control the violence; nuclear power plants...
Kimberly Akimbo Tim Hochstrasser 12/09/2026It might seem an odd place to begin a review, but the interview in the programme that accompanies Kimberly Akimbo...
The Story Olivia Hurton 06/09/2026Today the news is drama. Newspapers have taken to social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram to dispense stories via...
Il Turco in Italia Miho Uchida 08/10/2026The New National Theatre Tokyo opens its new season with Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia, a co-production between Madrid’s Teatro...
Cavalleria rusticana Alessandro Zummo 15/09/2026Cavalleria rusticana carries a danger that its own success has made almost inevitable: collapsing into a postcard of an imaginary...
Le Siège De Corinthe Josi Steinfeld 27/08/2026 Rossini moved to Paris in 1824 as “Premier Compositeur du Roy,” a prestigious position demanding a spectacular French grand opera...
La Scala Di Seta (The Silken Ladder) Josi Steinfeld 23/08/2026Rossini was 20 when La scala di seta premiered in 1812 — a remarkable year in which he composed five...
Il Turco in Italia Miho Uchida 08/10/2026The New National Theatre Tokyo opens its new season with Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia, a co-production between Madrid’s Teatro...
Giulio Cesare in Egitto Owen Davies 01/09/2026Giulio Cesare in Egitto was one of Handel’s great successes. It was first performed in 1724 for the Royal Academy...
Reviewer's rating Jad Adams 09/10/2026Set in a hospital room in 1950, we watch as George Orwell faces his imminent death aged 46. Mark Stratford...
Philippe Decouflé in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson 09/10/2026End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is hardly an...
