Reviewer's Rating The Jew of Malta Mel Cooper 12/05/2015he RSC has done a clever thing this summer by producing both The Jew of Malta and the play that...
Reviewer's Rating Arcadia Mel Cooper 15/04/2015om Stoppard’s truly wonderful play, Arcadia, is something of a jigsaw puzzle and just as much a crossword puzzle. It...
Reviewer's Rating Flight of Angels Mel Cooper 11/04/2015s much as any play, the live concerts of The Sixteen can be a dramatic event in themselves and last...
Reviewer's Rating All My Sons Mel Cooper 20/03/2015 hate giving the Talawa Theatre Company anything less than an enthusiastic review, partly because it is so important to have...
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...
Reviewer's Rating RSB – La Fille Mal Gardée and Swan Lake Mel Cooper 04/03/2015 got such real pleasure out of attending two performances by the Russian State Ballet of Siberia that my only regret...
Spamalot Mel Cooper 11/02/2015irmly in the tradition of not only Month Python but the kind of satirical and surreal humour that made Spike...
Oppenheimer Mel Cooper 02/02/2015he newly commissioned play, Oppenheimer, by Tom Morton-Smith is a total triumph. Every element meshes beautifully to make a truly...