by Web Editor | Feb 22, 2017 | Music
Magic potion Amanda Holloway Frank Martin’s Le Vin herbé, a “secular oratorio” based on the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde, could not be further in scope and sensibility from Wagner’s opera. Written between 1938 and 1940, in a Switzerland oddly isolated from... by hello_27687r2a | Feb 14, 2017 | Dance
Graham Watts Published: 14/02/2017 The dance critic Giannandrea Poesio died last week at the age of 57. He was an immensely popular dance academic and critic and son of the Italian theatre critic, Paolo Emilio Poesio. After his university studies in Florence,... 
by Web Editor | Feb 3, 2017 | Music
Puppet love Rick Jones Non-humans perform Wattle and Daub’s touring production of this “monstrous chamber-opera” by Tom and Tobi Poster, encamped at Wilton’s Music Hall in London’s East End for the next fortnight. The grotesque trilling puppets have a transfixing... 
by Web Editor | Feb 2, 2017 | Music
Frying tonight Richard Bratby Handel’s Semele is a one-off. Supposedly a Lenten oratorio, it fooled precisely no-one in Georgian London, where its blend of mythological hokum and extremely mild titillation was instantly recognised as Handel’s standard formula for... 
by Web Editor | Feb 1, 2017 | Awards, Drama
William Russell Held at the Prince of Wales Theatre on Tuesday 31 January the winners of the Critics’ Circle Theatre awards were – Best New Play The Flick by Annie Baker at the National Theatre. Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical Groundhog Day at the Old... 