Reviewer's Rating The Mousetrap Mel Cooper 06/12/2016eeing the same old, 64-year old original production of The Mousetrap doing the rounds again (and booking at the moment...
Reviewer's Rating The Seven Acts of Mercy Mel Cooper 05/12/2016he newly commissioned play at he RSC, The Seven Acts of Mercy by Anders Lustgarten is an interesting and successful...
Reviewer's Rating The Tempest Mel Cooper 21/11/2016here is a great deal of publicity about the use of contemporary technology that has been applied to make the...
Reviewer's Rating Kiss Me, Kate Mel Cooper 02/11/2016f music theatre inspired by Shakespeare plays like Verdi’s Macbeth and Tchaikovsky’s The Merchant of Venice, both in the repertoire...
Reviewer's Rating Macbeth Mel Cooper 02/11/2016his is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and to commemorate this the Welsh National Opera has chosen to present...
Reviewer's Rating Cats Mel Cooper 30/09/2016he revamp of Cats that took place for its run at the Palladium and for the current tour of the...
Reviewer's Rating The Rover Mel Cooper 20/09/2016his is quite simply a brilliant production of a brilliant play; and if there were only one thing you could...
Reviewer's Rating King Lear Mel Cooper 12/09/2016his is one of the most intelligent readings of King Lear that I have ever seen. For once, you do...
Reviewer's Rating The Glenn Miller Story Mel Cooper 03/09/2016’m not sure quite how to define this show because I think it is a bit schizophrenic. On the one...
Reviewer's Rating BBC Proms: The Makropulos Affair Mel Cooper 21/08/2016ithout a doubt, the BBC Prom performance on 19 August 2016 of janacek’s extraordinary opera The Makropulos Affair was a...