Reviewer's Rating Gangsta Granny Mel Cooper 16/01/2016caught up with the BSC stage adaptation of David Walliams’ Gangsta Granny in Oxford at the New Theatre where it...
Reviewer's Rating Queen Anne Mel Cooper 05/01/2016was out of the country when Queen Anne opened and finally caught up with it only at the very end...
Reviewer's Rating Annie Mel Cooper 19/12/2015he touring production of Chatrles Strouse, Martin Charnin, and Thomas Meehan’s Annie is the Christmas Show at the New Theatre...
Aladdin Mel Cooper 08/12/2015he pantomime season is upon us and I have just attended the Oxford Playhouse contribution to the genre for 2015...
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...
Reviewer's Rating Love for Love Mel Cooper 18/11/2015hough one of the most revered texts of English literature, Congreve’s “other” Restoration Comedy is rarely played these days. For...
Reviewer's Rating WNO Tour: Bellini, I Puritani; Handel, Orlando; Sondheim, Sweeney Todd Mel Cooper 10/11/2015caught up with the current Welsh National Opera season on tour in Oxford and must begin by reporting that musically...
Reviewer's Rating STOMP Mel Cooper 20/10/2015his unique show featuring non-stop movement and percussion continues to tour and, if anything, in this incarnation, is better and...
Reviewer's Rating Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap Mel Cooper 19/08/2015spent the other night in a Time Warp called Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap. I had a perfectly pleasant time living...
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...
