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Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe: Lusty and joyful

4/5 Indiana Lown-Collins’ production is a vibrant vision of one of Shakespeare’s trickier comedies

Evening Standard · Aug 3

I Puritani at Royal Opera: Lisette Oropesa is astounding

4/5 Bellini’s I Puritani lands at Royal Opera with a superstardom-sealing display from soprano Lisette Oropesa

Evening Standard · Jul 2

Sherlock Holmes at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: A garbled take

2/5 A baffling mix of previous takes on Holmes doesn’t have much of a clue

Evening Standard · May 14

Natalya Romaniw on Wagner’s Die Walküre: 'It's not just balls to the wall!'

Soprano Natalya Romaniw tells us about the challenge of taking on Wagner’s epic at the Royal Opera House

Evening Standard · Apr 30, 2025

Christopher Benjamin obituary

Veteran stage, radio and TV actor whose many notable Shakespearean roles included Falstaff and Bottom

The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2025

Manon Lescaut review – Puccini’s desert tragedy gets a surreal rainbow revamp

Jude Christian’s staging for English Touring Opera is colourful and imaginative but lacks critical chemistry and coherence

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2024

Lara Ricote review – endearingly offbeat comedy of self-exploration

The fringe award-winner compares her romantic relationship to how she feels about her audience in this mildly evasive investigation of inner knottiness

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2024

‘She plumbed our secret, shameful depths’: why are Sarah Kane’s plays still so shocking?

The writer, who took her life 25 years ago this month, wrote five searing dramas that took in everything from despair to love, from mutilation to cannibalism. What was it like to direct or star in them?

The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2024

Cavalleria Rusticana/Aleko review – an electrifying double-bill from Opera North

Setting Mascagni’s one-act opera amid the unease of 70s communist Poland, and moving Rachmaninoff’s to a colourful 90s surfing commune, the company does them both delectable justice

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2024

The week in dance: Nelken; Dark With Excessive Bright; São Paulo Dance Company – review

A revival of Pina Bausch’s 1982 work is still finding its feet. Plus, full immersion with the Royal Ballet and a rich addition to the international dance scene

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2024