5.0
Review: Street Scene, Opera North
Street Scene is a rollicking, powerful production which kicks off Opera North’s first season of 2020. Kurt Weill’s opera is truly a fusion of genres, and is br...
Kurt Weill
5.0
Review: Lost in the Stars, Union Chapel Islington
Highbury Opera Theatre’s production of Lost In The Stars – Kurt Weill’s last musical-cum-opera – in Islington’s Union Chapel is actually the work’s London premi...
Review: The Threepenny Opera, National Theatre
Bertolt Brecht: hated by students who don’t understand him, loved by the rest of us who still don’t really understand him. The Threepenny Opera is perhaps his m...
Review: Ballet Black: Triple Bill, Barbican Centre
A black curtain provides the barrier between stage and audience for three works from Ballet Black, a professional company for dancers of black and Asian descent...
Review: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Royal Opera House
News of funding cuts for some of the UK's most iconic arts institutions last summer, most notably the English National Opera, may have spurred creatives to thin...
The Wicked Stage: Can musical theatre ever be naturalistic?
One of my biggest pet peeves is how musicals are often perceived as being as far from reality as you can get in theatre, because the characters sing and dance...