Reviewer's Rating Doctor Faustus Luke Davies 15/09/2016here’s a lot that’s commendable about Maria Aberg’s production of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. It’s a brave piece of work:...
Reviewer's Rating Dreamless Sleep Adrian Pulle 14/09/2016his is a lovely, tender play which will stay with me for a long time. It shows us a few...
Reviewer's Rating dreamplay Nicola Watkinson 14/09/2016AZ Productions’ dreamplay promises us a ‘dream-journey to find the door behind which everything is answered.’ Unfortunately, although perhaps unsurprisingly,...
Reviewer's Rating Vanities: The Musical Tim Hochstrasser 08/09/2016he original play from which this fine work stems was a hit on Broadway some forty years ago, and the...
Reviewer's Rating Macbeth Samiha Azim 07/09/2016he beginning is suitably eerie; the witches rise amidst smoke and darkness from the heap of dismembered bodies. They hiss...
Reviewer's Rating Britten In Brooklyn Tim Hochstrasser 03/09/2016n late 1940 Benjamin Britten crossed the Atlantic and moved in with his friend W.H.Auden, who was occupying a floor...
Reviewer's Rating The MGM Story Richard McKee 03/09/2016ituated beside what used to be a toll gate, the Gatehouse is a pub atop Highgate Hill boasting good food...
Reviewer's Rating The Entertainer Lucy Ashe 01/09/2016he Entertainer is in danger of becoming a dated play, no longer able to speak to an audience with the...
Reviewer's Rating The Threepenny Opera Nicholas Potter 22/08/2016orris’s production of The Threepenny Opera is fantastically ugly: Brecht’s London is full of vagrants and harlots, a truly Dickensian...
Reviewer's Rating BBC Proms: The Makropulos Affair Mel Cooper 21/08/2016ithout a doubt, the BBC Prom performance on 19 August 2016 of janacek’s extraordinary opera The Makropulos Affair was a...