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...
Preparing the Miracle: From the Bronx to Broadway, Boris Aronson and the Yiddish Theatre Paul Meltzer 19/11/2015es, I am sending theater-goers visiting New York not to a play, but to an art gallery on the rarified...
The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present René Weis FRSA 12/10/2015Michael Billington’s selection of his top 101 plays, from Antiquity to the Present, is a treat worthy of Trimalchio. Surely...
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe René Weis FRSA 01/10/2015Shakespeare is the world’s global literary brand, as popular in Africa, America, and Asia as he is in Europe. For...
Plácido Domingo’s OPERALIA The World Opera Competition Rivka Jacobson 22/07/2015A glittering night of talents, prizes and surprises. Competition Final: Sunday 19 July 2015, 6 pm “My purpose in...
Future Stars Handling Handel Mel Cooper 22/07/2015Longborough’s new young stars give challenging performances in a brilliant Handel opera coming to London and Hastings. Many years...
52nd Theatertreffen 2015 in Berlin Rivka Jacobson 29/06/2015What is Theatertreffen? As Rivka Jacobson put it “every year, a seven-member jury zips across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, taking...
Finding the Playmakers of the Future Mel Cooper 06/06/2015Mel Cooper talks to Louise Chantal, CEO of the Oxford Playhouse, about her new initiative to find and encourage the...
The Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year 2015, and Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize Richard Voyce 19/05/2015t’s the middle of May so it can only be time for what has now established itself as an annual...
