Plácido Domingo’s OPERALIA The World Opera Competition Rivka Jacobson 22/07/2015 A glittering night of talents, prizes and surprises. Competition Final: Sunday 19 July 2015, 6 pm “My purpose in Operalia is to help ide...
Future Stars Handling Handel Mel Cooper 22/07/2015 Longborough’s new young stars give challenging performances in a brilliant Handel opera coming to London and Hastings. Many years ago, Ch...
52nd Theatertreffen 2015 in Berlin Rivka Jacobson 29/06/2015 What is Theatertreffen? As Rivka Jacobson put it "every year, a seven-member jury zips across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, taking in scads of th...
Finding the Playmakers of the Future Mel Cooper 06/06/2015 Mel Cooper talks to Louise Chantal, CEO of the Oxford Playhouse, about her new initiative to find and encourage the next generation of playwrights ...
The Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year 2015, and Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize Richard Voyce 19/05/2015 It’s the middle of May so it can only be time for what has now established itself as an annual fixture on the musical theatre landscape, the afternoon...
Theatre: All class and no class divide Jimmy Fairhurst 08/04/2015 Jimmy Fairhurst, Artistic Director of Not Too Tame, talks about the future of theatre: Pete Postlethwaite, during his time at the Liverpool Everym...
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh Mel Cooper 10/03/2015 John Lahr is a respected critic and biographer and in his latest book, a definitive life of Tennessee Williams, he has outdone himself in giving us a ...
Allen Shawn, Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician (Jewish Lives) Mel Cooper 10/03/2015 Allen Shawn’s new book about Leonard Bernstein probably doesn’t replace the magisterial Humphrey Burton tome about the polymath’s extraordinary life, ...
Alan Cumming, Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir Mel Cooper 10/03/2015 Over Christmas, three books about entertainment folk kept me enthralled, engaged and informed. The first of these was the haunting and, at times, surp...
A Critic’s Advice on Reviewing Michael Billington 08/03/2015 I've been a theatre critic for most of my working life but I'm reluctant to lay down rules. Every review should be an expression of the writer's perso...
