- Venue: National Theatre (Olivier)
- Date: 21st July 2022
- Directed by: Emily Burns
- Staring: Caroline Quentin
It rivals The Rivals
Just back from Jack Absolute Flies Again at the Olivier - a reworking of The Rivals set on a WWII fighter base during the Battle of Britain.
- Venue: Bridge Theatre
- Date: 13th July 2022
- Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
- Staring: Alex Jennings
A Tale for our times
Just back from The Southbury Child at the Bridge Theatre. This has been receiving 4* and 5* reviews, and this will be no different.
- Venue: Glyndebourne Festival Theatre
- Date: 6th July 2022
- Directed by: Floris Visser
- Staring: Long Long; Yaritza Véliz
A wonderful, restrained, Bohemian
Last night at Glyndebourne to see La bohème, in a stark but very moving production, beautifully sung.
- Venue: Opera Holland Park
- Date: 1st June 2022
- Directed by: Julia Burbach
- Staring: Anush Hovhannisyan (Tatyana) and Samuel Dale Johnson (Onegin)
A straight Onegin for troubled times
At the opening of the 2022 Opera Holland Park season with Eugene (Yevgeny) Onegin - (and no, I have no qualms in watching a 19th century Russian opera in the light of what 21st century Russian autocrat is currently up to).
- Venue: London Coliseum
- Date: 17th May 2022
- Directed by: Bartlett Sher
- Staring: Amara Okereke; Harry Hadden-Paton & Stephen K Amos
A Fair Fair Lady
Just back from a late preview of My Fair Lady at the Coliseum.
- Venue: Cadogan Hall
- Date: 30th April 2022
- Staring: London Gay Men's Chorus & Jenna Russell
Wonderful Sondheim tribute
Today to hear (and watch) the London Gay Men’s Chorus celebrate the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim (‘Sondheim Songtime’) at the Cadogan Hall.