- Venue: Old Vic
- Date: 25th July 2024
- Directed by: Matthew Warchus
- Staring: Anna Maxwell Martin; James Corden and Zachary Hart
No surprises, but you’ll enjoy it
The second play this week takes us to The Old Vic and The Constituent by Joe Penhall.
- Venue: Hampstead Theatre
- Date: 23rd July 2024
- Directed by: Chelsea Walker
- Staring: James Corrigan; Natalie Simpson; Nigel Hastings; Jessie Gattward.
Over-egging the pudding?
The first play this week is Visit from an unknown Woman; at the Hampstead.
- Venue: Barbican Theatre
- Date: 3rd July 2024
- Directed by: Bartlett Sher; Anthony Van Laast (choreography)
- Staring: Adrian Dunbar; Stephanie J. Block; Charlie Stemp; Georgina Onuorah; Peter Davison; with Nigel Lindsay and Hammed Animashaun
Another Opening - of a rather good show...
From operetta to musical comedy, and Kiss me Kate at the Barbican.
- Venue: Glyndebourne Festival Theatre
- Date: 1st July 2024
- Directed by: Director Cal McCrystal; Conductor John Wilson
- Staring: Danielle de Niese; Thomas Allen; Soraya Mafi; Michael McDermott; Tom Edden
Merry is as Merry does, and this does Merry 100%
If you are going to do operetta at Glyndebourne, then do it in spades, seems to be the (wholly acceptable) watchword in Sussex.
- Venue: Wilton's Music Hall
- Date: 12th June 2024
- Directed by: John Savournin. Musical Director David Eaton
- Staring: Meriel Cunningham; Matthew Kelly and Richard Suart
After Bizet, Sullivan; after Mérimée, Gilbert. After the sublime (Carmen at Glyndebourne), the faintly weird.
Wilton’s Music Hall sees the return, for a week, of The Charles Court Opera’s latest G&S foray – the rarely performed The Sorcerer, from a short story by W S Gilbert.
- Venue: Glyndebourne Festival Theatre
- Date: 10th June 2024
- Directed by: Diane Paulus
- Staring: Rihab Chaieb; Dmytro Popov; Dmitry Cheblykov
Great start to the 2024 season
The first Glyndebourne of the 2024 season, and it’s Carmen, starring, and it really is starring, Rihab Chaieb (until August).