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 20/11/2015René Weis has done an excellent job in telling us that story, backing it up with convincing scholarship and placing...
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...
