REVIEWS

We live in a world where knowledge is power, where we know so much. But we should never underestimate the power of the mysterious, for it...

Luca Silvestrini pulled out all the stops when he decided to adapt The Little Prince for his company Protein Dance by turning what was...

We all know A Christmas Carol – indeed, most people are likely to have enjoyed dozens of versions of Charles Dickens’ matchless tale of...

A real test of how good a panto is to try it out at 10 o’clock on a freezing November morning more than a month before Christmas in front...

The odds on this year’s London International Festival Of Early Music returning to Blackheath as a live event must have seemed at times...

As we walked into the auditorium at the Albany to see the new dance work Donuts, three young women on stage were scrunched up together on...

Music from the Cross to the crossroads, promised guitarist Ben Tyzack as Saints & Sinners took to the stage at Mycenae House. And he...

Symbols have always mesmerised our species. One of the world’s oldest artworks is an ivory lion-man carved 40,000 years ago, millions of...

Any concert by Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra will always be memorable for the awesome musicianship of its young members. If it’s then...

Theatre matters. The world may be reeling under an apparently unceasing rain of disasters and setbacks – global warming, the Covid...

How does a writer create a fury-driven polemic without seeming to batter an audience into submission? The line that separates engagement...

John Blow’s 17th century work Venus And Adonis, reputedly the first English opera, contains music that is never less than blissful - but...

As we arrived at Greenwich Theatre to see Tiger Lady we were greeted by the cast wandering around the auditorium offering shots,...

It was appropriate that the Fireworks Factory stage should be the setting for the New Regency Orchestra to play the first public gig at...

The true psychological cost of lockdown may not be known for years. But we do know it’ll be high and we’ll need all the help we can get...

Protein Dance’s latest creation, En Route, is a dazzling investigation into the possibilities of live performance. Its essence is, as...

If you like your Shakespeare accessible, it’s hard to beat A Midsummer Night’s Dream with its lovers, fairies, music, wonderfully...

They may be 40 to 50 years old but, as a brilliant new Greenwich Theatre production of four of Caryl Churchill’s early plays reveals,...

You don’t have to be an arch-monarchist to enjoy Tudors To Windsors, an exhibition celebrating 500 years of royal portraiture which runs...

The After-Dinner Joke, Caryl Churchill’s great satire on corporate philanthropism, may be 43 years old but shockingly, as director James...

Lockdown has scuppered the sheer visceral excitement that artists and audiences share in any live performance, forcing creatives to look...

Open Source Collaborations, a pioneering lockdown project launched by The Albany and Foreign Body Productions to help emerging artists...

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

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...

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...