United Kingdom Grace Pervades: Theatre Royal Haymarket, Haymarket, London, 30.4.2026. (BF) *****
David Hare’s Grace Pervades is a love letter to the theatre and a real treat
Theatre, Musicals, Broadcasts & Films
Reviews and articles of some events that are not Concerts, Opera, or Dance, and others that have been streamed, shown in the cinema or on TV
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre’s Macbeth: an exciting and well-adapted version of a great play
United Kingdom Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, Surrey, 23.4.2026. (BF)
Covent Garden’s indestructible The Magic Flute powers on
United Kingdom Mozart, The Magic Flute: Soloists, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Marie Jacquot (conductor). Recorded (directed by Rhodri Huw) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 20.10.2025 and viewed at Cineworld Newport, Isle of Wight, 21.4.2026. (DH)
Singers, orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin unite in a Rotterdam Siegfried for the ages
Netherlands Wagner, Siegfried (concert performance): Soloists, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Broadcast live – and available in replay on medici.tv – from de Doelen (Grand Hall), Rotterdam, 17.4.2026. (JPr)
Lambslaughter is a clever, unsettling schoolroom drama where teenage rivalry gradually turns darker
United Kingdom Olivia Revan’s Lambslaughter: King’s Head Theatre, Islington, London, 17.4.2026. (JH) ****
Possokhov and Serebrennikov’s Berlin Nureyev shows us something of his spirit but not his tortured soul
Germany Staatsballet Berlin’s Nureyev: Vocalconsort Berlin, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin / Dominic Limburg (conductor). Filmed at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (directed by Miriam Hoyer) on 21.3.2026 and available on ARTE Concert until 30.3.2031. (JPr)
Invisible Me is a gently affecting piece whose modesty is, in the end, its quiet strength
United Kingdom Bren Gosling’s, Invisible Me: Southwark Playhouse Boorough, London, 10.4.2026. (JH) ****
Kosky’s oddly staged Siegfried disappoints though Pappano and his orchestra are on top form
United Kingdom Wagner, Siegfried: Soloists, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Peter Jones) from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 31.3.2026 and viewed at the Chelmsford Theatre, Essex, 5.4.2026. (JPr)
