Review: ASHTON CELEBRATED - PROGRAMME 1 at Royal Opera House
by Matthew Paluch - June 07, 2024
The Ashton Worldwide (2024-2028) international festival continues at the Royal Opera House with the Royal Ballet on the mainstage in Ashton Celebrated. The company is performing two mixed bills with slight repertoire changes....
Review: WEDDING BAND, Lyric Hammersmith
by Cindy Marcolina - June 07, 2024
Interracial marriage has been legal in the United States for less than six decades. To put it into perspective, sliced bread was first sold forty years earlier. Set in 1918 South Carolina, Wedding Band is a blistering portrayal of unjust laws and discrimination, of conscious and unconscious bias, of...
Review: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, Opera Holland Park
by Franco Milazzo - June 05, 2024
Even if the press night weather for this open air production suggested otherwise, this latest take on The Barber Of Seville is the perfect summer opera with its fluffy blend of humour and romance and some of the art form’s best known arias....
Review: SARASOTA BALLET - PROGRAMME 1 at Royal Opera House - Linbury Theatre
by Matthew Paluch - June 05, 2024
'wit, charm and elegance' are the words used to describe the work of Royal Ballet founding choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton (1904-1988). English ballet, or rather style wouldn't exist without him, so The Frederick Ashton Foundation have understandably instigated the Ashton Worldwide (2024-2028) in...
Review: GANDINI JUGGLING'S SMASHED, Peacock Theatre
by Franco Milazzo - June 04, 2024
Juggling not only apples but comedy, dance and socio-sexual commentary, the troupe co-founded by Sean Gandini and Kati Ylä-Hokkala in 1992 bring back their signature production to London....
Review: VIOLA'S ROOM, One Cartridge Place
by Franco Milazzo - June 03, 2024
In a sudden lurch away from their epic 2022 creation The Burnt City, immersive specialists Punchdrunk’s next effort is a far more cosy affair. Small barefoot groups walk their way through the Nineties fairytale world of Viola’s Room with the story relayed over headphones by Helena Bonham Carte...
Review: A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE at Theatre Royal Haymarket
by Louise Penn - June 05, 2024
The first major revival of Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge in a decade plays on the downfall of the 'Everyman'. Eddie Carbone is a hard-worker, popular, a man's man. But something deep and dangerous is gnawing at his heart....