★★★★★I heard sharp intakes of breath around me twice in this show. The first was when Frank, the washed-up, alcoholic husband of the driven-to-adultery Anna, lashes out at the immigrants who also live in this slum building. A searing play about tensions in Brexit Britain? No, this is Kurt Weill’s 1946 “American opera” Street Scene — 24 hours in the life of a New York tenement building during a heatwave. Yet it’s so relevant today that I had…

Source: The Times January 20, 2020 12:00 UTC