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...
My Mother’s Funeral: The Show Olivia Hurton 02/02/2025The cost-of-living crisis fills inches of newspaper columns but where is the discussion about the cost of dying? Last year,...
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...
The Bowie Show Tim Hochstrasser 26/01/2025This was my first visit to the Golder’s Green Hippodrome, a hulking venue the size of the Coliseum, and originally...
Moby Dick Owen Davies 26/01/2025This production – part of the London International Mime Festival – is by the French-Norwegian theatre company, Plexus Polaire. To...
The Merchant of Venice Ben Reiss 24/01/2025Things you will be warned about before watching Theatre For A New Audience’s (TFANA) production of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant...
Not a Word Sofía Danailov Esteban 22/01/2025“Not a Word” is a striking portrait of what it is to be forgotten, to be alone, to be a...
Jenůfa Josi Steinfeld 21/01/2025This revival of Claus Guth’s 2021 production of Jenůfa is a triumph largely thanks to Czech conductor Jakub Hrůŝa. Making...
