Reviewer's Rating Das Rheingold Mel Cooper 10/06/2019The new Longborough Opera Festival production of Das Rheingold approximates, within the “given” of its setting and budget, just about...
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 The Provoked Wife Mel Cooper 06/06/2019The Provoked Wife by John Vanbrugh is given a production that it truly deserves at the RSC, pivoting cleverly between...
Reviewer's Rating The Importance of Being Earnest Mel Cooper 29/05/2019The new production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at the Watermill Theatre near Newbury is another success...
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 The Taming of the Shrew Mel Cooper 24/04/2019The new RSC production of The Taming of the Shrew is eminently worth seeing for all the right reasons and...
Reviewer's Rating Kunene and the King Mel Cooper 23/04/2019What a fine play is Kunene and the King! In certain moments while attending to it I worried fleetingly that...
