Reviews
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Review: Summer Assembly Songs
Summer Assembly Songs by Mark and Helen Johnson Out of the Ark Music £24.95 (Standard pack); £42.95 (Premium Pack) AnRead More -
Online production of the month: Khovanshchina
Khovanshchina Mussorgsky La Scala, Milan Review by James Imam Photography by Brescia & Amisano Crouched over his score likeRead More -
DVD of the month: The Exterminating Angel
The Exterminating Angel Adès Erato 0190295525507 By Francis Muzzu Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel was first seen at the SalzburgRead More -
Review: Richard III
Richard III is one of Shakespeare’s most notorious villains, and in this touring production from Headlong, directed by John Haidar,Read More -
Review: Charles Owen plays Brahms late piano works
Charles Owen offers penetrating insight into Brahms’ late piano music, caught in gloriously burnished sound. There is a bravery toRead More -
Review: ‘Home, I’m Darling’, Duke of York’s Theatre and tour
Playwright Laura Wade has form with sharp, cruel comedy about class and social status, having written Posh, which ran toRead More -
Review: The Monstrous Child
The Monstrous Child Gavin Higgins 21 February – 3 March 2019 Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House It’s not easy beingRead More -
Review: The Winter’s Tale at the National Theatre
by Freddie Machin For ages 8+ 6– 21 February 2019 Running time: 1 hour FOUR STARS The Winter’s Tale is anRead More -
Scottish Opera: Anthropocene
Theatre Royal, Glasgow **** Review by Kenneth Walton 11 years ago, when Scottish Opera launched its Five:15 project – an initiativeRead More -
Review: Marx in London
Jonathan Dove, Theater Bonn Music **** Staging *** When Jürgen Weber, the enterprising director at Theater Bonn, first proposed theRead More -
Review by George Hall Over recent decades it’s become fashionable for companies to stage oratorios and other choral works. LeadingRead More -
Review: Guilt Trip
4 stars Intermission Youth Theatre is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year with a production of Much Ado AboutRead More -
Review: Consensual
Three stars A solid play that tackles difficult issues. The emotional tightrope involved with working with young people is oftenRead More -
Review: Trench Brothers
17 October 2018 Brighton Dome Trench Brothers is a World War One project developed and delivered by HMDT Music (forRead More -
A whole new world: Disney’s Aladdin resource review
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National Theatre presents Pericles: first Public Acts production
‘A nation’s worth is truly shown by how they treat a stranger, not their own.’ I felt an impulse toRead More -
Opera Nacional de Chile stages Catholic Church satire
Review by Karyl Charna Lynn El Cristo de Elqui, or The Christ of Elqui, was the Teatro Municipal’s first worldRead More -
National Theatre Connections Festival 2018: 28 June
The National Theatre’s Connections is a nationwide youth theatre festival that has been running for twenty years. It commissions tenRead More -
The Star Seekers
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Lessons in Love and Violence at Covent Garden
The libretto is full of meaty conflicts. The performances are excellent. The orchestral sound-world is full of ear-tingling surprises. SoRead More
