On the opening night of director Richard Jones's excellent production of Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, England's captain, Harry Kane, leads his team to the last 16 after scoring two goals against the Democratic of Congo in the World Cup. Concurrently, another decisive victory is pulled off by an equ…
Thirty-four years is a long time to leave an opera in the attic, and I puritani has spent most of that period gathering dust for good reason. Bel canto — that Parisian tradition of vocal style over dramatic substance producing works that, to many, are all fur coat and no knickers — has never qui…
The New York-based Mint Theater Company specialises in theatrical gems neglected by accidents of history. On this occasion, their charge is Teresa Deevy’s 1937 Wife to James Whelan, chiefly famous for its rejection from Dublin’s Abbey Theatre under newly conservative censorship rules, and not pe…
Returning to the West End in a breath-taking production directed by Carrie Cracknell, this revival confirms that Tom Stoppard created one of the finest works in modern theatre.…
Barney Norris's new play is raw slice of life based on extensive research in left behind towns…
'This green plot shall be our stage,' declares Quince, which couldn't be more fitting for Atri Banerjee's quirky, new production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. After all, there's a particular magic in this venue, with its dreamy roses, exotic ducks and …
If you suffer from If you suffer from any kind of anxiety or nervousness, I would advise caution when booking the latest show at the Donmar Warehouse. Chloë Moss's new play, The Guilty, is 60 minutes of pure claustrophobic tension. In the heat of the summer outside, it feels like watching water gr…
Like many in the audience, my introduction to To Kill A Mockingbird was at school, a set book on the English Literature curriculum. If you don’t count Enid Blyton and Edward Ardizzone, it was pretty much my introduction to books full stop.…
At one point, in June 1939, the UK-US ‘Special Relationship’ was defined by the King eating hotdogs on the president’s lawn. King George VI and the future Queen Mother may not have persuaded President Franklin D. Roosevelt to promise Britain his allegiance in the forthcoming war in Europe, but…
In Reyuela, Flores and his collaborators see flamenco as a game of risk, mischievousness, and arrogance. Reyuela brings a fusion of art, words, and humanity to London - yet the parts are not always cohesive as a whole if you seek a narrative.…
With Britains exit from the EU imminent, the seaside holiday camps have an opportunity to fight back against the once cheap European holidays and claim...
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