Review: MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Wilton's Music HallApril 11, 2024Serving as a kind of Barber of Seville of theatre, Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the most accessible of Shakespeare’s plays. Its blend of mystic romance, daffy dramatists and fairy-powered shenanigans is not short on rambunctious comedy turns but, in the hands of Flabbergast Theatre, that aspect is turned up to eleven.
Review: PHANTOM PEAK: FESTIVAL OF INNOVATION, LondonApril 10, 2024When Phantom Peak, one of London's most innovative and ridiculously fun theatrical experiences, holds a Festival Of Innovation, how can one say no? It is not the only impressive immersive show in town but its near-peerless execution and boundless imagination puts it up there with the more well known Punchdrunk.
Review: DON'T.MAKE.TEA, Soho TheatreMarch 28, 2024A pitch-black comedy thriller which gives Franz Kafka a run for his money, Don’t.Make.Tea doesn’t hold back in its excoriating view of modern Britain.
Review: MADAMA BUTTERFLY, Royal Opera HouseMarch 28, 2024There are few things more life-affirming than christenings, orgies and operas. And few works are more life-affirming and cathartic than Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.
Review: FAITH HEALER, Lyric HammersmithMarch 21, 2024Frank Hardy has a problem. He’s an Irish faith healer without faith in his power to heal. It comes, it goes and he only knows for sure when it is not going to happen. With his wife Grace and manager Teddy, their tour of Wales and Scotland in a battered van has seen his abilities steadily failing him. A last throw of the die sees him return to his homeland. What could go wrong?
Review: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, Wilton's Music HallMarch 18, 2024In the week when an Arts Council England report lambasted the current state of opera and questioned its relevance to wider society, Charles Court Opera’s The Barber Of Seville stands as a stern rebuff to those who consider this art form to be dated and irrelevant.
Review: THE RETURN OF THE KING IN CONCERT, Royal Albert HallMarch 18, 2024With a live rendition of the Oscar-winning score by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the Philharmonia Chorus, the latest in the Royal Albert Hall’s “films in concert” series brings the The Lord of the Rings epic fantasy saga to a majestic conclusion.
Review: GINGERLINE'S THE GRAND EXPEDITION, DalstonMarch 18, 2024Like some latter day Phileas Fogg, immersive dining specialists Gingerline’s revival of The Grand Expedition leads us on a merry virtual journey around the world all while sat in a hot air balloon gondola.
Review: JENŮFA, London ColiseumMarch 15, 2024Opera is not short of stories where women are violated and abandoned by the men in their lives but Leoš Janáček’s Jenůfa is an especially cruel tale.
Review: BESOS, BEATS AND BEAUTIES, Lio LondonMarch 7, 2024Operating from the former Café de Paris, dinner-cabaret experience Lio London is coming up to its first anniversary and is celebrating with its latest show Besos, Beats and Beauties.