 | The Hothouse     10 May 2013 Jamie Lloyd's high-energy "Trafalgar Transformed" season continues with an outrageously funny production of Harold Pinter's weirdly unfinished second major play, one he wrote shortly after The Bir.... More... |
 | Travels With My Aunt    9 May 2013 The Menier Chocolate Factory has a thing about aunts of late. Following on the heels of last year's revival of Brandon Thomas' farce Charley's Aunt, this Graham Greene adaptation by Giles Havegal is a.... More... |
 | Don Carlo      9 May 2013 Cynics had a field day when the Royal Opera announced Anja Harteros for the role of Elisabeth in Don Carlo, and the no-show diva with a second-to-none cancellation record (or a next-to-none attendan.... More... |
 | The Match Box     9 May 2013 Leanne Best showed up well in Frank McGuinness' over-insulted, if not exactly underrated, version of Damned by Despair at the National last year, and here she is again in an original text by McGu.... More... |
 | Some Like it Hip Hop     9 May 2013 I didn't realise that I had stumbled into the opening night encore of La Traviata at La Scala in Milan, until I realised I hadn't. This was most definitely Holborn, and I was sitting in the stalls o.... More... |
 | Passion Play     8 May 2013 Sacred music and secular love: it's a potent combination in Peter Nichols' raw and rasping 1981 adultery play that comes across in this lacerating revival by David Leveaux as a bitter, twi.... More... |
 | The Play that Goes Wrong      7 May 2013 There's nothing wrong with The Play that Goes Wrong, which has transferred to Trafalgar Studios following its run at the Old Red Lion. This is effortless slapstick that Keaton and Chaplin would have.... More... |
 | Charlie and Lola’s Extremely New Play    7 May 2013 There have been so many advances in the use of puppetry and music in mainstream theatre recently that it's slightly disappointing to find the dear little Polka Theatre still using cut-out cartoons.... More... |
 | Die Zauberflöte     5 May 2013 A very British ‘Flute’ graces the stage for phase two of the Royal Opera’s latest revival. All but a handful of the named principals are home-grown singers, surely a first in r.... More... |
 | The Tempest (Globe)    3 May 2013 Jessie Buckley as Miranda & Roger Allam as Prospero (Photo: Marc Brenner) How reluctant is Prospero to give up his power? He talks of abjuring his magic to embrace his former position but how easily .... More... |