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Co-writer Maxine Peake stars as an am-dram actor playing the former Commons speaker in Sarah Frankcom’s end-of-the-pier-style production

John Haidar directs a dark and pacey psychological thriller with an impressive cast

Throughout the 90-odd minutes of a passionate and jolting show, a professorial figure seeks, unsuccessfully, to talk us through the phenomena that we are witnessing.

A visceral production of Dvořák’s opera about a love-stricken water nymph; a jolly evening with the Finnish violinist and conductor; and a journey to the outer limits

Garsington Opera's new production gives Dvořák a post-industrial aesthetic, but Natalya Romaniw provides the power and warmth

Ethel Smyth’s long-neglected maelstrom of an opera is worth a plunge; and pianist Kirill Gerstein is on peak form in Liszt

The acclaimed Sadler's Wells National Partner Company balletLORENT, based in Newcastle and run by Liv Lorent, returns to Sadler's Wells with an original story by former poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. 

Inspired by seven female characters from the plays of Euripides, including Medea, Phedre, and Alcestis, Teevan refashions them for the modern world. Linked by the thread of motherhood and tragedy, each story is relayed in free verse by Niamh Cusack and Shannon Hayes. The sparsely furnished stage is hung with seven rocks on strings which are […]

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How much we've missed in a year is exemplified in aspects of this hit-and-miss show. Opera review by David Nice