REVIEWS

The Christmas lockdown forced Greenwich Theatre to close its doors days before its production of the children’s classic The Wolves Of...

The entertainment sector is in crisis – but the dedicated armies of artists whose work so enriches our lives are determined to carry on...

Online arts are playing a vital role in keeping up our spirits and feeding our souls during the Covid lockdown. And while no one would...

It was a daunting task – to cover 900 years of western music from 12th century sacred monophony to 21st century jazz in one afternoon...

There’s so much to love about the annual London International Festival of Early Music – amazing musicians, an astonishing array of rare...

South-east London is a crucible of cultural excellence and one of its most shimmering ingredients is the phenomenon that is Charles...

The annual Blackheath Halls Opera is always a highlight of the cultural year in south-east London and it’s also a favourite with readers...

Any gig featuring a true virtuoso is going to be a treat. But sometimes the musical virtuosity is mirrored by a gift for story-telling...

Considering the country was in deep lockdown only a few weeks ago, it’s amazing that the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival...

Severndroog Castle mirrored its status as Greenwich’s most beautiful hidden gem with the brilliance of its creative programme when it...

There were a great many pleasures to be had in The House That Slipped, a witty and wise lockdown show devised, written and performed by...

Early in lockdown, Trinity Laban launched a pioneering season of works created and performed by students and staff self-isolating at...

Steven Berkoff’s play The Secret Love Life Of Ophelia could have been written for lockdown – an exchange of 39 claustrophobically...

Covid-19 has forced creatives across the arts to find new forms of expression. And Greenwich Theatre’s latest contribution to online...

Grayson Perry’s Art Club was a highlight of lockdown telly. Now Southwark-based painter Rod Kitson has gone one better by not only...

Music is a global language, a truth that has been underscored by its primacy around the world during the Covid-19 lockdown. And no one...

Teatro Vivo’s long-running promenade theatre thread Grimms Collecting Agency has illuminated the local arts scene for many years with...

Covid-19 scuppered any hope that Array, a two-night festival of immersive ambisonic sound and colour, would be staged at the Albany....

At what must be one of the weirdest times most of us has ever experienced, all-female dance collective Mass Hysteria have conjured up a...

Music’s a source of comfort and inspiration at the best of times. At times like this, with the country in the grip of Covid-19, it comes...

There’s a plethora of terrific cultural events out there in cyberspace to help us cope with self-isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic...

There have already been so many great online performances by artists to offer rays of hope amid the gloom of Covid 19 and the latest...

In a world where vainglory and average intelligence pass for talent among our leaders, it’s hard to imagine today just how extraordinary...

Like all great art, dance requires no explanation – it simply demands that we open our hearts and minds to a transcendent experience. And...

Apart from Hamlet, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s most quotable play, containing some of his finest soliloquies and packed with phrases...

Major world premieres, medieval chants, Hindustani folk music, Hollywood soundtracks, Taiwanese dance, First Nation tribal traditions, a...

It’s a brave theatrical performance that begins with the show’s narrator declaring gleefully: Theatre is dead. Such bravado could have...

It‘s almost inconceivable that the exhibition now on at the Queen’s House – three Armada portraits of Elizabeth I and 27 treasures from...

Fest en Fest is a dance event like no other, concerning itself over three days with the evolution of dance in a series of discussions,...

Fire bird, a new work by Julie Cunningham, is quite simply electrifying. It not only blazes a trail for contemporary dance while...

© Andrej Uspenski Life is a mass of contradictions, paradoxes, emotional swings and, ultimately, a realisation that our very uniqueness...

Splendid Productions lived up to their name when they brought their spellbinding version of Dr Faustus to Greenwich Theatre, ingeniously...

One of the reasons audiences adore Pixar films such as Toy Story is that they are child-friendly fantasies shot through with whip-smart...