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If the show lacks a little in power having been pared back, many more people will have a chance to enjoy a super show

Landmark show that has something for everyone

Nina Segal's new play is hamstrung by an old set up.

Ivy Tiller is a good kid, but life has dealt her a rough hand and, when it gets rougher still, what will she do?

Football opera land perfectly between the Women's Euros and the Men's World Cup finding plenty of common ground to delight fans of both art forms

Laudable sentiment but something of a missed dramatic opportunity in this play about an Afghan family's journey from Herat to Cardiff and the love they found there

Dmitry, a new play, is described as 'After Schiller', but, in its dissection of the ruthless manipulation of a young man aiming for the Tsardom of Russia, one finds parallels more recent blockbusters.

1960s Williams' play that cannot capture the magic of his work in the previous two decades

A provocative and ultimately successful reimagining of opera's most operatic of works

Angel Theatre Company have a lot of fun, but still find some bite, with their snatches of conversation overheard in London in 2022.

Sus retains its power and relevance, but one can't help wondering if it requires an update to account for the changes in policing minorities in the 43 years since it was written - at their roots, the problems are the same, but they present somewhat differently.

One woman's reflections on her life as a Jew in the 20th century throw light on the history of a people - and give us much food for thought in the 21st.

Big ambitious new play derailed by too many cookie-cutter characters and a central dilemma that fails to land as its explanation lacks the required clarity

Catch a master at work in London before the show heads to Broadway

Opera at Home's double bill offers the traditional and the avant-garde

James Gavin finds the man, but doesn't quite find his place in this detailed biography

There's more to Larkin's life than we see here, but, nevertheless, it's a lovely play that does full justice to the three women with whom he spent much of his life

Fascinating one act opera performed by technically very strong singers and musicians, but let down a little by a lack of clarity in its narrative exposition

Christopher Shinn's play brims with interesting politics but is too often bogged down in overly-familiar personal issues

A very young cast perform a new musical that needs work but has as good a chance as any if it gets the expertise and time in requires