Reviewer's Rating A Cocktail Party Social Experiment (w/ Distance) Becca Kaplan 21/06/2020Can a group of strangers cut through the small talk and shallow rejoinders and instead delve immediately and deeply into...
Up, Up, Up & Away Catherine Flutsch 17/06/2020Since lockdown, many parents have asked me whether I’d recommend online theatre to stream for their children. Until now, I...
Reviewer's rating L’Elisir d’Amore Mel Cooper 08/06/2020I’ve just been watching the streaming of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore from the Met and wish it was going to be...
Art Marie Communal 09/04/2020« Mon ami Serge a acheté un tableau. C’est une toile d’environ un mètre soixante sur un mètre vingt, peinte...
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...
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...
