Mark Brown on Clydeside
★★★★☆
21 April 2026

This two-act ballet – inspired by and built around Gene Kelly’s short “jazz-ballet” Pas de Dieux – has its genesis in a smaller, one-act piece staged by Scottish Ballet back in 2021. Then as now the premiere was attended by the show’s artistic collaborator Patricia ...

Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg
21 April 2026

Ivanov as a character in the eponymous drama must be one of the original practicing existentialists and is certainly the character seed for Anton Chekhov’s future plays. The work of a young Chekhov still in his twenties, Ivanov has also the flaws of a young playwright; for instance, he hasn’t quite g...

Franco Milazzo in the West End
★★★★★
20 April 2026

The return of Avenue Q to the West End 20 years after it first landed here should be a cause for celebration. It thumbed its nose at political correctness and embraced diverse real-life topics that most musicals steer well clear of, not least pornography, racism, and s...

David Wootton in West London
★★★☆☆
19 April 2026

In devising Nayatt School Redux, the legendary American ensemble The Wooster Group poses questions about the nature and recovery of performance. It is a restoration and reworking of Nayatt School, one of the company’s earliest and most famous pieces, composed by...

Andreas Rey in Munich
14 April 2026
★★★★☆

The Bayerische Staatsoper (Bavarian State Opera) has revived its production of Puccini’s Tosca by the Hungarian director Komrei Mundruczo from two years ago, this time with Italian conductor Marco Armilato on the podium.

Photo credit: Geoffroy Schied.

If the scenogra...