Antonio Pappano: My Life In Music Rivka Jacobson 13/07/2024Antonio Pappano’s autobiography, “My Life In Music,” offers an engaging and insightful journey through the life of one of the...
BOOK REVIEW The Sleeping Beauties Tim Hochstrasser 23/03/2024‘Sleeping Beauties’ is Lucy Ashe’s second novel, coming swiftly after ‘Clara & Olivia’, reviewed here last year. It explores similar...
Reviewer's Rating Clara & Olivia by Lucy Ashe Tim Hochstrasser 19/02/2023This original and exquisitely written novel is a highly accomplished debut from Lucy Ashe. Lucy trained at the Royal Ballet...
Reviewer's Rating Pick A Pocket or Two – A History of British Musical Theatre By Ethan Mordden Tim Hochstrasser 22/02/2022This new and welcome study of the history of the musical in Britain fills -incredibly – a major gap in...
Reviewer's rating CARY GRANT The Making Of A Hollywood Legend by Mark Glancy Mel Cooper 17/01/2022“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant!” said Cary Grant. And that is pretty...
Breaking into Song: why you shouldn’t hate musicals Grace Creaton-Barber 04/09/2021I was so excited to read this book and to come away fully equipped with the verbal ammunition I need...
0% The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando (New York: Harper Collins, 2019) Mel Cooper 03/10/2019Central to the post-World War II generation of pioneer artists who helped redefine the practice and purpose of theatre, Marlon...
Reviewer's rating The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 – The Musical Nelly Wolman 05/07/2019This musical adaptation of the late Sue Townsend’s novel immerses you in the urban East Midlands of the early Thatcherite...
High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic Mel Cooper 25/04/2017This book is a fascinating companion to Victor Navasky’s Naming Names, which was a fairly comprehensive general history of that...
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...
