Breaking Down Barriers at New York’s Fresh Fruit Festival Austin Fimmano 19/07/2016Amidst the smothering heat and unrelenting sun of New York City summers, each year ushers in a much-anticipated season of...
Arnold Wesker – Obituary Luke Davies 16/04/2016Arnold Wesker, who died on Tuesday at the age of 83, was only four years old when the Battle of...
Chekhov in our Century: The F Word and the Tutu Elizabeth Bove 01/04/2016Chekhov’s masterwork, The Seagull (1896), grapples with the desperate measures we have always taken for the sake of love and art. ...
Pappano Rules Okay Mel Cooper 02/03/2016Joyce & Tony: Live at Wigmore Hall Erato 0825646 107896 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Verdi, Aida, Anja Harteros,...
Sinatra: Behind the Legend Mel Cooper 19/02/2016Not Quite Totally Frank To celebrate the 100th birthday of Frank Sinatra, J Randy Taraborrelli has revised and updated his...
Maggie Smith: A Biography Mel Cooper 09/12/2015In many ways this is not so much a biography of Maggie Smith as it is a catalogue raisonné of...
Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II Mel Cooper 08/12/2015Anyone interested in Schiller’s play Don Carlos, or in the great Verdi opera based upon it, must be curious about...
Wintry Magic and Future Home Entertainment Mel Cooper 28/11/2015attended the live broadcast of The Winter’s Tale performed by the Kenneth Branagh Company on 26 November at a cinema...
61st Annual London Evening Standard Theatre Awards Rivka Jacobson 24/11/2015The free Champaign added sparkle to a star-studded evening at the Old Vic, where the winners of the 61st Theatre...
The Real Traviata: The Song of Marie Duplessis Mel Cooper 20/11/2015You have to love her, Alfredo! Alphonsine Plessis (aka Marie Duplessis) has to have been one of the most charismatic...
