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 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 Allegro Tim Hochstrasser 16/08/2016llegro is something of a ‘missing link’ in musical theatre history. Coming after Oklahoma! and Carousel in 1947, it has...
Reviewer's Rating The Kreutzer Sonata Tim Hochstrasser 20/07/2016here is a lot more to Tolstoy’s literary output than simply War & Peace and Anna Karenina. Those great masterpieces...
Reviewer's Rating Sunset at Villa Thalia Tim Hochstrasser 19/07/2016lexi Campbell’s The Pride was highly successful in interweaving two separate periods of time in order to juxtapose contrasting attitudes...
Reviewer's Rating French Without Tears Tim Hochstrasser 13/07/2016here is a lot of Rattigan about in London recently, and rightly so. Few of his fifteen or so plays...
Reviewer's Rating La Fanciulla del West Tim Hochstrasser 11/07/2016his is the final year of Opera Grange Park’s eighteen-year residency at its tastefully derelict neo-classical home, Northington Grange, hidden...
Reviewer's Rating In Parenthesis Tim Hochstrasser 29/06/2016hen we think of the poetry of the First World War it is Owen and Sassoon who first come to...
Reviewer's Rating Marie Chouinard — Double Bill Tim Hochstrasser 22/06/2016or two days only Quebecois dancer and choreographer Marie Chouinard brings her company to Sadler’s Wells for the performance of...
Reviewer's Rating Werther Tim Hochstrasser 21/06/2016ules Massenet wrote some thirty operas and was esteemed by contemporaries as the most successful French operatic composer of the...