The Birthday Party
With blisteringly well crafted characters and dialogue, The Birthday Party was Hackney-born Harold Pinter’s 2nd…
Browsing: The Culturist
The Case of the Frightened Lady
I caught The Agatha Christie Company’s latest touring thriller production, The Case of the Frightened…
Sunset Boulevard UK Tour
I am glad to have been born during the height of Andrew Lloyd-Weber’s popularity, when…
Joyce DiDonato at Wigmore Hall
Sometimes it’s impossible to find words to describe music. Often it’s about what we feel,…
Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus. Rape. Cannibalism. Extreme bloodshed. Hardly the recipe for a festive Christmas play. Add…
Hunt for the Cheshire Cat
It’s not every Saturday that you’re set a challenge by a Cheshire Cat with attitude.…
Cavalleria Rusticana & I Pagliacci
Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci – the most famous opera double act there…
Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella
Sadler’s Wells new Christmas show is Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella. Matthew Bourne for Christmas is becoming…
The Open House
As if we don’t have any worthy contemporary British playwrights to showcase, following German writer…
The RSC’s Antony and Cleopatra
Standing on the platform at the Barbican tube after the RSC’s performance of Antony and…
Morality and Merriment: A Christmas Carol at The Old Vic
It’s always something of a pleasure to see a production with no preconceptions ahead of…
Semiramide at the ROH starring Joyce DiDonato
Semiramide is the kind of opera I usually struggle with for all sorts of reasons,…