Review 5/44

Sam's no fool in lovely-jubbly stage role

George Orwell’s dystopian masterwork is 75 years old now, but its author didn’t live to see its impact, dying just a few months after its...

After Dick Whittington, Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, the Royal Court team has sunk its teeth into another famous fairytale for...

Just before the Philharmonic Hall closed for major building work in 2014, the RLPO premiered Poltroons in Paradise – a specially...

On paper it’s not the most prepossessing of pitches. A musical that centres topics like mental health, loneliness, suicide and grief. Yet...

The start of the season may have been delayed a month by work to the hall, but the Phil’s autumn schedule has certainly rip-roared into...

In the 18th Century there was a vogue for rewriting Shakespeare to appeal to Georgian audiences and which included introducing new...

Anyone who likes a bit of horror in their lives will find that their cup runneth over next week – with Halloween preceded by an autumn...

Giselle has been if not endlessly then certainly regularly reinterpreted since it was composed some 183 years ago. Among them are Mats...

It’s been a long time coming – five months, if we’re counting, since the full forces of the RLPO were last on the Philharmonic Hall...

Shakespeare wasn’t averse to borrowing plots or characters from historic texts – and in turn his work has been the inspiration for...