Reviewer's Rating Flashdance – The Musical Richard McKee 06/10/2017ow!! This old reviewer, a crotchety curmudgeon, entertained serious doubts that he would enjoy the spectacle of nubile (and scantily...
Reviewer's Rating Aida Owen Davies 06/10/2017ida is grand opera in every way – big voices, huge choruses, and lots of extras. And this ENO production,...
Reviewer's Rating The Toxic Avenger – The Musical Richard Voyce 05/10/2017he Toxic Avenger, which has just opened at The Arts Theatre, is never going to win any awards in the...
Reviewer's Rating The Tempest Aleksandra Sakowska 02/10/2017ate Stafford’s adaptation of The Tempest is an important contribution to multicultural Shakespeare which in her company’s version of the...
Reviewer's Rating Eugene Onegin Owen Davies 02/10/2017The WNO autumn season is labelled ‘Russian Revolution’ and comprises works by Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky, and Janacek, all set in Russia....
Reviewer's Rating Wings Rebecca Coates 29/09/2017n the preface to Wings, playwright Arthur Kopit emphasises the scientific knowledge required to direct this play, and the understanding...
Reviewer's Rating Otelo Vera Mikusch 29/09/2017telo is a highlighting of Desdemona’s murder in Shakespeare’s Othello, as a reminder of the horrific femicide rates in Latin...
Reviewer's Rating Cavalleria Rusticana Owen Davies 29/09/2017ascagni’s superb verismo masterpiece is being presented as part of Opera North’s imaginative Little Greats series. It is given in...
Reviewer's Rating After the Rehearsal/Persona Roger Mortimer 29/09/2017emember that scene in Woody Allen’s time-travel comedy Midnight in Paris where the hero encounters Luis Buñuel, and pitches him...
Reviewer's Rating Jewgeni Onegin Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 28/09/2017“Lyrical scenes”, that’s what Tschaikovsky called his in 1887 written opera, after being criticized for weak plot.