Performing Arts
THEATRE REVIEW: Shun-kin, Complicite at Barbican
'Shun-Kin', Simon McBurney’s latest show for Complicite at the Barbican, is the Japanese story of servant Sasuke’s masochistic love for…
THEATRE REVIEW: Mrs Affleck, National Theatre
If Ibsen is for all time then it seems an odd decision to plonk him so precisely in one historical…
Who said classical music was dead?
Against all the odds, the first decade of the new millennium has seen a renaissance in the classical music world.…
THEATRE REVIEW: Tons of Money, Touring
In the hands of these skilled actors, the play succeeds in reaching a level of quality which from lesser performers…
THEATRE REVIEW: Plonter, The Pit
The play is a tangle in several senses: it is an ensemble piece performed in Arabic and Hebrew with English…
THEATRE REVIEW: Primary Voices, Quicksilver Theatre
Surreal, funny, entertaining, imaginative - Primary Voices gives its audience an exclusive look into the minds of young Londoners, and…
OPERA REVIEW: Die tote Stadt, The Royal Opera
Korngold’s score, expertly conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, is an intoxicating web of mournful longing and nostalgia: a dead city made…
THEATRE REVIEW: A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is littered with arcane references to obscure concepts and ideas with which a modern audience may…
THEATRE REVIEW: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, National Theatre
Mere minutes after the start of Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National Theatre,…
Poetcasting
You have heard of Podcasting, but have you heard of Poetcasting? Alex Pryce has come up with an inventive way…