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