In the world of live performance, collaboration is everything—actors, musicians, directors, designers, and crew members all working together to bring an idea to life. Interestingly, today’s office environment has started to look more like a theater production: people coming and...
“Do you believe in a life after birth?” Sunday morning was no ordinary Prom, as Martin Fröst and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra delved into the idea of exploring the DNA of Beethoven via new interpretations of works by the likes of Handel and Rambeau, as well as the world première BBC co-commis…
First performed at Les Invalides in Paris in 1837, Hector Berlioz’s Requiem (“Grande messe des morts”) is music and spectacle on a grand scale. Originally written for 450 performers, this Prom saw roughly 400 musicians and singers gather across the Royal Albert Hall stage and Choir Stalls sect…
At 7pm on Friday, wildfire alerts pinged on phones across the UK - but for those of us in the Royal Albert Hall it served as an early warning system for the heat that would be generated by the BBC Proms tribute to Marvin Gaye. Backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and the LJ Singers, assembled artists…
With a trio of 20th century classics, this Prom is competent and enjoyable, but lacking that touch of something special.…
Six extraordinary musical theatre performers take to the stage with one seemingly impossible task: create a brand new musical from scratch, based entirely on suggestions from the children in the audience. The result is Showstopper! The Kids Show, a wildly inventive hour of music, comedy, storytellin…
Unless one happens to have read the programme notes beforehand, it’s not immediately obvious that Rockpools is a play about endometriosis. For the first half, the only hint we get is the protagonist’s bloody sheets. Instead, debut writer-performer Molly Windust has created a character rich in od…
Ed Gaughan is extremely good at accents. So good that it’s five minutes or so into the show before anyone realises his native accent is not, in fact, Irish.…
Tarang Hardikar’s Edinburgh Fringe debut is an hour of wonderfully curious comedy, in which no thought is too small to escape scrutiny. If I’m Not Wrong is built around Hardikar’s instinct to question absolutely everything, creating a show which is as authentic as it is delightfully unpredicta…
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky can surely claim to be one of the world's most talented and memorable composers. Born in Russia in 1840, he composed some of the most well-loved and memorable ballets of all time such as Swan Lake and Nutcracker, as well as operas such as the masterful Eugene Onegin, and cla…
Jess Robinson does not simply impersonate the stars. She appears to possess an entire musical showreel of them. …
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