- Venue: Menier Chocolate Factory
- Date: 25th November 2025
- Directed by: Christopher Luscombe
- Staring: Janie Dee; Alexandra Gilbreath; Sarah Twomey
Another very Bonne Noel from the Menier
For Christmas the Menier offers Noel Coward’s Fallen Angels.
- Venue: Hampstead Theatre
- Date: 17th November 2025
- Directed by: Blanche Mcintyre
- Staring: Tracy-Ann Oberman; Jennifer Westfeldt; Sam Marks
Oy veh! Whatever that means...
It’s a packed house at the Hampstead to see Richard Greenberg's 2013 play Assembled Parties, and we are not disappointed.
- Venue: Almeida
- Date: 4th November 2025
- Directed by: Michael Grandage
- Staring: Jasper Talbot ; Charles Edwards; Robert Portal; Alistair Nwachukwu; Arty Froushan; Ellie Bamber
Time travel back to a different time, almost familiar
Line of Beauty at the Almeida – set in the heady days of the early 80s – catches that moment when hedonism raised its head from the doldrums of the 3 day week, power cuts and rubbish in the streets.
- Venue: Wilton's Music hall
- Date: 11th September 2025
- Directed by: John Savournin (musical director - David Eaton)
- Staring: Matthew Siveter, Matthew Kellet, Catriona Hewitson, Catrine Kirkman (& John Savournin)
Spot-on G&S - no surprises then...
Another Wilton’s, another Charles Court Opera G&S – this time a Patience revival.
- Venue: Charing Cross Theatre
- Date: 2nd september 2025
- Directed by: Jenny Eastop
- Staring: Rob Pomfret, Rachel Pickup, Harrison Sharpe, Noah Huntley
The book was better
I first read Daughter of Time (Josephine Tey, 1951) in my mid teens – it got me to rethink what the study of history might be, and to doubt the certainties of school texts.
- Venue: Glyndebourne Opera House
- Date: 11th August 2015
- Directed by: Richard Jones
- Staring: Renato Girolami; Mariam Battistelli
What a contrast!
From the gloom of Wagner’s Parsifal to the merriment of Verdi’s Falstaff is a joyous leap for us this Glyndebourne season. (Mind you, we had Verdi’s sadder Traviata only a fortnight ago!)