Reviewer's Rating Don Pasquale Mel Cooper 23/06/2019The Welsh National Opera have again produced a “reduced” version of an opera to tour small scale and mid-sized venues...
Reviewer's Rating Napoli, Brooklyn Mel Cooper 06/06/2019I liked Napoli, Brooklyn. I found it interesting, though in the end it just didn’t quite add up for me....
Reviewer's Rating Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and Other Love Songs) Mel Cooper 16/05/2019Macheath was conceived as a loveable rogue, a highwayman type, in the original John Gay send-up of opera, politics, society...
Reviewer's Rating Club Tropicana the Musical Mel Cooper 14/05/2019I try to accept “the given” of anything I see. But I am afraid that this time I simply cannot...
Reviewer's Rating Richard III Mel Cooper 08/05/2019The new Headlong production of Shakespeare’s Richard III is to be seen if possible because of the intelligent and thoughtful...
Reviewer's Rating Ian McKellen On Stage Mel Cooper 02/05/2019If you want to see the kind of one man show that became legend, a show in the tradition of...
Reviewer's Rating Calendar Girls Mel Cooper 19/04/2019Gary Barlow and Tim Firth have created a touching and charming adaptation of the famous film. On stage the basic...
Reviewer's Rating Dinosaur World Live Charlotte Trichard (10) 14/04/2019If I was between 3 – 7 years old, I would have really loved Dinosaur World Live. As I am...
Reviewer's Rating In The Willows Charlotte Trichard (10) 12/04/2019Child review: Charlotte Trichard (Age 10) In The Willows, by Metta Theatre, was a daring adaptation of the classic story...
Reviewer's Rating The Mousetrap Catherine Flutsch 03/04/2019I first saw The Mousetrap 35 years ago at St Martin’s theatre in London’s West End. It was, and still...
