Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus. Rape. Cannibalism. Extreme bloodshed. Hardly the recipe for a festive Christmas play. Add…
Browsing: The Culturist
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,…
Marnie: English National Opera
Is it a book? Is it a film? Is it an opera? Actually, it’s all…
Welsh National Opera: Eugene Onegin
Welsh National Opera called at Bristol Hippodrome last week; the penultimate venue on their UK…
Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell
What does one of the founding fathers of Impressionism and a nineteenth century Scottish shipping…
Christmas Eve
Niamh Cusack and Patrick Baladi star in German playwright Daniel Kehlman’s Christmas Eve, directed by…