Play
Grotty at the Bunker
It’s always fascinating to see plays that manage to explore both the deeply specific experiences of an individual…
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Live music
Steve Reich’s Different Trains at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Few modern classical composers have succeeded in having as much impact on contemporary culture as Steve Reich. The…
By Juliet Evans
Play
Love Me Now at the Tristan Bates Theatre
The fragmented structure of Michelle Barnette’s debut play can take a little while to get used to. But…
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Musical
Chocolate Cake at the Polka Theatre
Successful children’s theatre tends to master the fine art of simultaneously creating something that its young audience will…
By Juliet Evans
Play
The Way of the World at the Donmar Warehouse
It’s often difficult to stage Restoration-era comedies such as William Congreve’s The Way of the World, written in…
By Juliet Evans
Opera
La Traviata at the London Coliseum
English National Opera has had a trying few years. Amid financial difficulties, the board pushed through controversial plans…
By Juliet Evans
Play
Caroline, or Change at Hampstead Theatre
From the opening number of Caroline, or Change, featuring singing household appliances, theatregoers wouldn’t be expecting a work…
By Juliet Evans
Play
A Passage to India at Park Theatre
EM Forster’s elegant prose style, one of the greatest features of his work, is always going to be…
By Juliet Evans
Opera
Tosca at the Royal Opera House
Puccini’s warhorse opera is inveterately popular. The convoluted and melodramatic plot is nonetheless tempered by exquisite orchestration and…
By Juliet Evans
Play
Titus Andronicus at the Barbican
The extreme gore of Titus Andronicus, not the best or most well-known of Shakespeare’s plays in any case,…
By Juliet Evans