Ishq at Sadler’s Wells
The audience last night at Sadler’s Wells was almost as colourful as the performers on…
Browsing: The Culturist
Pink Floyd at the V&A
I can’t say I’ve ever been much of a Pink Floyd fan. The songs I…
The Lady in the Van
Immortalised by Dame Maggie Smith in both the 1999 West End play and the 2015…
Looking at Lucian
Currently world premièring at the Ustinov Studio, the smaller sister to Theatre Royal Bath, you…
North by Northwest
Theatre Royal Bath is the chosen venue for the UK première of the stage version…
Zazà at Opera Holland Park
I love Opera Holland Park. Let’s get that out of the way up front. The…
Kát’a Kabanová: Opera Holland Park
Holland Park Opera have just revived Olivia Fuchs’s hugely successful 2009 production of Leoš Janáček’s…
RSC’s Queen Anne
No one really remembers much about Queen Anne. When I announced to colleagues where I…
RSC’s The Tempest
It is something of a truism to state that Simon Russell Beale is unmissable in…
Ink
The frighteningly talented young playwright James Graham seems to be engaged in a competition with…
Midsummer Prom: Iford Arts 2017
There’s nothing like a prom to get you feeling patriotic, even in Brexit-negotiation Britain. However,…
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
Glamorous black and white photographs of a jazz singer with bright white gardenias in her…