Pappano Rules Okay Mel Cooper 02/03/2016Joyce & Tony: Live at Wigmore Hall Erato 0825646 107896 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Verdi, Aida, Anja Harteros,...
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...
Wintry Magic and Future Home Entertainment Mel Cooper 28/11/2015attended the live broadcast of The Winter’s Tale performed by the Kenneth Branagh Company on 26 November at a cinema...
61st Annual London Evening Standard Theatre Awards Rivka Jacobson 24/11/2015The free Champaign added sparkle to a star-studded evening at the Old Vic, where the winners of the 61st Theatre...
The Real Traviata: The Song of Marie Duplessis Mel Cooper 20/11/2015You have to love her, Alfredo! Alphonsine Plessis (aka Marie Duplessis) has to have been one of the most charismatic...
Preparing the Miracle: From the Bronx to Broadway, Boris Aronson and the Yiddish Theatre Paul Meltzer 19/11/2015es, I am sending theater-goers visiting New York not to a play, but to an art gallery on the rarified...
The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present René Weis FRSA 12/10/2015Michael Billington’s selection of his top 101 plays, from Antiquity to the Present, is a treat worthy of Trimalchio. Surely...
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe René Weis FRSA 01/10/2015Shakespeare is the world’s global literary brand, as popular in Africa, America, and Asia as he is in Europe. For...