Canadian-born Mel Cooper came to the UK to study at Oxford and stayed, captivated by the culture and history of the welcoming and tolerant society of Britain.
He founded the magazine Opera Now. He was a consultant to the Japanese broadcaster NHK, a broadcaster on British Satellite Broadcasting and a member of the team that started Classic FM on which he broadcast shows like Classic America and Authentic Performance. After working with the Genesis Foundation on helping to fund arts projects, he continues to write, review and lecture on music and literature.
The new RSC production of The Taming of the Shrew is eminently worth seeing for all the right reasons and one that is arguably the wrong one. (It also...
What a fine play is Kunene and the King! In certain moments while attending to it I worried fleetingly that it was a bit contrived, but those moments ...
Gary Barlow and Tim Firth have created a touching and charming adaptation of the famous film. On stage the basic plot and the theme of women of a cert...
This touring incarnation of The Rocky Horror Show is pretty much everything that you would expect or want from the famous cult musical. If you detest ...
The musical Annie is good fun. It may not be among the very greatest American musicals, but if it is of the second rank, it is at the very top of that...
I was somewhat disappointed in the new production of As You Like It at the RSC in Stratford directed by Kimberley Sykes, but I was definitely in a ver...
Kinky Boots The Musical is an excellent show both in conception and execution. The original film was very successful. I had fears that turning it int...
There are many things about this production of Doctor Dolittle that are delightful and I was in the company of many children when I saw it, children w...
Rufus Norris makes this both a “Scottish” play and a contemporary one, setting his interpretation of Macbeth in a kind of Afghanistan/Syria/Middle Eas...
The Christmas show in Oxford this year is a return of the touring company of Jersey Boys. If you like the music Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons the...
