50 stories by "Manuel Muñoz"
Secret Opera, created in 2014 as part of The New London Opera Players, is presenting (as part of The Gender Project) a number of opera productions approached from a LGBT point of view, parti…
When first published in 1782, Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses delighted, shocked and outraged its readers with its naked exposing of morally questionable behaviour from its tw…
As much as Manon was a leitmotif last year at the Royal Opera House " with a ballet and two operas on the ill-fated beauty " this year it is Eugene Onegin that is receiving the full ballet a…
Not too long ago, a comedy opened at the Duchess Theatre, and at that moment not many could have predicted that it would become a huge success (Olivier award for Best New Comedy included).Â…
The proliferation of Nutcrackers in London is a clear indication that we are approaching Christmas. Together with pantos, Christmas musicals and choral realness, this festive landscape can b…
The final instalment in Shakespeare's tetralogy of English kings, Henry V arrives at the Barbican just in time for the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, which saw the young king …
Olivier-award winner show La Soirée returns to London for the festive season, amid Christmas shows and candle-lit concerts, proving to be the perfect alternative show for un-Christmassy Lon…
When Cio-Cio-San, also known as Butterfly, took her life the gory way at the end of G. Puccini's Madama Butterfly, her heartbreaking story seemed to have finished for good. However, performe…
We cannot deny Xanadu is a cult film, in a so-bad-it's-good way. Career-ending for many, it was supposed to be the next Grease for Olivia Newton-John (and one of the final guest appearances …
One of the biggest theatrical events of the year, Lyndsey Turner's Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, has been the most talked-about production in London since tickets sold out just minu…
Filmmaker, writer and artist Penny Woolcock presents this massive art installation in the atmospheric space of the Roundhouse as part of the Bloomberg Summer programme. This immersive experi…
Much-loved musical Annie is back in the West End for a short run at the Arts Theatre, in a very simple, minimalist production that is both naively charming and unevenly directed. Even though…
The stage version of CBBC's Horrible Histories – now in its third live shows season – has started its run at the Garrick Theatre with the aim of telling the stories of Magna Cart…
This award-winning play, written and performed by Sarah Calver, is making its UK debut at the Ovalhouse before going to Edinburgh's Fringe. This one-woman show is unique in its blend of genr…
After a year-long Broadway run in 2010 and a US and UK tour, this musical featuring the songs of pop-punk band Green Day has now opened at the Arts Theatre for a limited run, starring X-Fact…
This one-off performance at the Linbury Studio Theatre (Royal Opera House) was a showing of some of the scenes of Zaid Jabri's new opera Cities of Salt. It featured four scenes and an orches…
Since it was created in 2001, the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme aims to give young artists (singers, conductors and répétiteurs) the chance to develop their skill by spending two ye…
Originally devised for 2014's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Diver is a one-woman show about Kate Plank, an explorer attempting her most challenging mission yet: walking from England to N…
Spare Parts Theatre Company, dedicated to raising awareness of transplant issues through performance, present this week at the Rosemary Branch Theatre Pieces, their new production that will …
The only Verdi comic opera still widely performed, Falstaff is also his last. Premièred at La Scala in 1893, it was a success despite moving away from the bel canto tradition. It is also th…
After the success of Bathhouse: The Musical! earlier in the year, Above The Stag Theatre has now produced Rent Boy: The Musical, written by David Leddick with a score by Andrew Sargent, and …
The last new production of this Royal Opera House season, Guillaume Tell is also its third Rossini, together with Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Il Turco in Italia. Having not being staged at C…
As a new musical, The Clockmaker's Daughter looks and sounds familiar in a very good way. Created by Michael Webborn and Daniel Finn, this new piece of musical theatre is an enchanting fairy…
'Tell him that you're never gonna leave him, tell him that you're always gonna love him'… And so goes the legendary hit by The Exciters. Hearing it, among others, as I was waiting for The …
Sometimes it is hard to find the right word to describe an experience and, after 80 minutes of Cuddles, I am speechless. Written by emerging playwright Joseph Wilde, Cuddles intoxicates the …
