It was a night of celebration at the Sherman Theatre as Music Theatre Wales marked forty years of championing modern…
School of Rock at WMC
May 17, 2022It may not be the most dramatic or spectacular of musicals, but I must admit that I have always had…
An innovative Madam Butterfly, Welsh National Opera
March 17, 2022There is plenty of tricky ground to tread when bringing Madam Butterfly to the stage. One of Puccini’s masterwork, the…
A profoundly sensitive Jenůfa, WNO
March 7, 2022The WNO continues in its exploration of the works of Czech composer Leoš Janáček, this time going back to the…
Engulfing bleakness, Don Giovanni, Welsh National Opera
February 28, 2022The opener to the WNO’s much awaited Spring season is a very philological take on Mozart’s classic, the solemn, almost…
An Inspector Calls, National Theatre, New Theatre
March 11, 2020Bringing a classic play back to the stage can be a challenging task, and the weight of it can…
The Beauty Parade, Wales Millennium Centre
March 10, 2020The Beauty Parade came to the stage with perfect timing. A deeply affecting narrative telling the not-told-enough story of female…
Back to Berlin, CB4 Theatre, The Other Room at Porter’s Spring Fringe
March 5, 2020Fringe theatre is a different kind of beast from your average production – with the budget constraints and the…
Chiara Strazzulla reviews Les Vêpres Siciliennes, WNO
February 9, 2020First performed in 1855 at the Paris Opéra, Les Vêpres Siciliennes is a less frequently revisited entry in the Verdi catalogue, and…
Cinderella, New Theatre, Cardiff
December 12, 2019Last year I wrote a piece on how it was to go to the panto for the first time, as…