Reviewer's Rating Ariadne auf Naxos Mel Cooper 18/07/2018Ariadne auf Naxos is one of the most poetical, intellectual, and musically nuanced of operas, a sophisticate treat. Written by...
Reviewer's Rating Miss Littlewood Mel Cooper 16/07/2018One of the many exciting and interesting things about this new musical, commissioned by the RSC, is how cleverly it...
Reviewer's Rating Misanthrope Chloe Darnaud 29/06/2018David Furlong’s adaptation of Misanthrope takes place at the heart of a modern TV newsroom, turning Molière’s critique of 17th...
La Traviata Mel Cooper 28/06/2018With their new production of Verdi’s seminal middle period work La Traviata, this summer’s Longborough Opera Festival has created one...
Reviewer's Rating Hairspray Mel Cooper 22/06/2018The 2014 production of Hairspray directed by Paul Kerryson is touring the country again. Extremely polished, remarkable for its emotional...
Reviewer's Rating Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain Mel Cooper 13/06/2018Simon Reade’s clever homage to Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain, plays like a well made West End...
Reviewer's Rating Der Fliegende Holländer Mel Cooper 13/06/2018The team at the Longborough Festival have managed to produce a Flying Dutchman that will itself live in legend, I...
Reviewer's Rating Manchester Collective: Sirocco Pauline Duverger 13/06/2018“It’s not a concert, it’s a chat!” proclaimed Abel Selaocoe during the performance that took place in Manchester on the...
Reviewer's Rating Birdsong Max Haydon 08/06/2018Birdsong combines the heartache of love with the heartbreak of war. The play goes back and forth from the trenches...
Reviewer's Rating Rumpelstiltskin Mel Cooper 08/06/2018On one level, the Ballet Lorent has once again created an interesting dance event that tells a fairy tale for...
