Even for Puccini lovers, Il Trittico is somewhat of a curiosity. This collection of three one-act operas was debuted in 1918…
Cardiff-born tenor Sam Furness sings Nero at Grange Festival
June 15, 2024**** Grange Festival, HampshireIt would seem the contemporary version of achieving the feeling of absolute authority, power over everyone including…
Nye: theatre of hagiography
June 8, 2024A national icon, playing a national icon, about a national icon can make for some heavy adulation. I suspect some…
Nye, National Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre
May 22, 2024**** I have, as I am sure many other people also do, a deep-seated horror of hospitals. Hospitals are, as…
The Glass Menagerie, Everyman Theatre, Chapter
May 8, 2024The Glass Menagerie may well be one of the most popular of 20th century American plays, but it stands or falls…
House of Jojo, a dance and costume extravaganza, WMC
May 6, 2024It might seem odd to describe a chap who declares his show as Camp as Christmas as an old-fashioned boy…
Welsh National Opera, Peace and Passion, Wales Millennium Centre
April 22, 2024★★★ It could not have been more apt for this concert that Mozart was struggling to make…
Kill Thy Neighbour, Theatr Clwyd
April 11, 2024xxxx Caryl and Meirion live in an idyllic coastal village, only it doesn’t feel so idyllic to them anymore. They are…
Death Trap, Rambert
April 9, 2024*** After the pretty wonderful Peaky Blinders from Rambert, there was a lot of anticipation of the company’s return to…
Come from Away at Wales Millennium Centre
April 3, 2024**** I was lucky enough to visit New York earlier this year and to visit Ground Zero. This made…