Bakkhai at the Almeida
Continuing the Almeida’s Greeks season, Ben Whishaw stars in a proficient albeit rather anti-climactic staging…
Author Tom Garton
Get Thee to the Greek: Oresteia at The Almeida
For the rest of the year, the Almeida is staging a season of Classical Greek…
The Merchant of Venice
It’s that time again. The Globe is back with its summer season. The tourists and…
Matchbox Theatre
Most of the new plays around right now are serious. Of course there’s nothing wrong…
Carmen Disruption
Chimerica, King Charles III, and 1984 are some of the plays that have established the…
Hotel Majestic, Barcelona
Entering Barcelona’s Hotel Majestic was like being swooped into a Hollywood film, albeit that I…
Jungfrau: A Magic Winter Wilderness
Switzerland’s Jungfrau region is known, at least in British circles, for the skiing. For this…
Tiger Country
Tiger Country was the play that saved the Hampstead Theatre during the theatre’s “dark winter…
The Golden Girl of the West
La fanciulla del West is not one of Puccini’s most popular or well-known operas, although…
Teh Internet Is Serious Business
Colourful, chaotic, and cruel is the internet. At least that’s how Tim Price depicts it…
Hotel at the National Theatre
Polly Stenham is one of Britain’s fresh, young playwrights. In 2008 she became the youngest…
Gresham Palace: The Grandest Budapest Hotel
It is night in Budapest. Wrapped in my bathrobe I gaze out over the Danube…