Purge, Arcola Theatre

Last Thursday, I was at the Arcola Theatre to see Purge, Sofi Oksanen’s 2007 stage version of the story that she herself turned into a bestselling novel.

Opera of the week: Viagron, a new opera by Arne Gieshoff and Frank Allison, is at the Riverside Studios in a superb production directed by Matthew Monaghan for Size Zero opera comp…

Text of the day: “Because yes.”

One from the archives: “An Olivier, a Gielgud, or a Richardson is presumably not indifferent to the opportunity of displaying himself in a part that exercises his peculiar qualitie…