The anniversary that failed

From our resident critic: How bizarre it is that some of Shakespeare’s plays have long been labelled “problem plays” – bizarre because all Shakespeare plays are problematic, because one can’t help feeling that it was […]

Herbert Fritsch’s production of The Barber of Seville has some stage business involving opoungent cheese. Krone reports that the foul smell reached the audience and many people walked out. The production has been replaced by […]

The Greek city is remembering Yiannis Boutaris, winemaker and clean-handed politician, who died yesterday at the age of 82. As mayor of Salonika from 2011 to 2019, Boutaris pledged to build the city’s first memorial […]