by Web Editor | Feb 29, 2016 | Archives
Hon Gen Sec Ten boxes of old letters, press cuttings, menus and membership books of the Critics Circle since its beginnings on the eve of the First World War are kept in a temperature controlled barn belonging to the Museum of Theatre History in Bristol. Nothing of... 
by Web Editor | Feb 29, 2016 | Awards, Dance
Hon Gen Sec The 16th Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards were presented on Monday 25 January 2016 at the the Place Theatre. A large and voluble crowd gathered to cheer on colleagues receiving awards and to enjoy the party both before and after the ceremony.... 
by Web Editor | Feb 23, 2016 | Music
Figaro’s progress Lucien Jenkins Even before Welsh National Opera’s orchestra under Lothar Koenigs strikes up the overture to The Marriage of Figaro, members of the cast in modern dress are on stage, reading or stretching as if for a work-out. Enter Figaro in... 
by Web Editor | Feb 20, 2016 | Music
Bad Gauls Alexandra Coghlan Those keen to update Bellini’s druidic tragedy can take their pick from colonial history – so how Christopher Alden lit on 19th-century America is anyone’s guess. These Gauls and Romans play out their oppression and rebellion in a big... 
by Web Editor | Feb 17, 2016 | Music
Manic flute Robert Thicknesse If ENO can get only half an audience for the fourth performance (of 13) of one of the most popular and glorious of all operas, whose fault is that? The tantrums of an arts sector with an infantile inability to take responsibility whenever... 