United Kingdom
Dance review: Inside Giovanni’s Room, The Rep, Birmingham
A fearless and tender dance adaptation that confronts queer desire, shame, and selfhood with aching vulnerability.
Performance review: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Alien, Adelphi Theatre, London
Conceptually ambitious and visually dense but tonally inconsistent and lacking a clear artistic throughline.
Theatre review: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham
A moody, imaginative take on Narnia where puppets prowl and actors play their own score.
Opera review: Simon Boccanegra, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank London
Opera North gives a masterclass in operatic concert staging.
Dance review: ALiCE, Sadler’s Wells, London
A 'curiouser and curiouser' reinvention of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.
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Theatre review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Birmingham Hippodrome
A gloriously bonkers blast of musical mayhem.
Theatre review: The Crucible, Shakespeare’s Globe
Arthur Miller’s haunting drama of the Salem witch trials comes to the Globe.
Book Review: Alice’s Oxford, Peter Hunt
Tiptoe through the back streets of Oxford with this new book about Alice and her author Charles Dodgson.
Theatre review: The Fifth Step, Soho Place, London
A compelling two-hander about masculinity and dealing with your demons.