Reviewer's Rating Hairspray Mel Cooper 22/06/2018The 2014 production of Hairspray directed by Paul Kerryson is touring the country again. Extremely polished, remarkable for its emotional...
Reviewer's Rating Thoroughly Modern Millie Mel Cooper 04/05/2018Thoroughly Modern Millie was a very successful film that got very mixed reviews. It succeeded mainly on the charms of...
Reviewer's Rating Cilla, The Musical Mel Cooper 16/02/2018At one level this is just another well-put-together biographical show in the tried and true genre of musicals based on...
Reviewer's Rating Mamma Mia Mel Cooper 19/11/2017here is very little one can do to analyse Mamma Mia! any longer because most people have seen the film...
Reviewer's Rating Son of a Preacher Man Mel Cooper 27/10/2017Son of a Preacher Man is a new “compilation” musical put together for an extensive UK tour that will last...
Reviewer's Rating Lord of the Dance Mel Cooper 26/01/2017he tour of Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games reached Oxford and I decided to have a look at it....
Reviewer's Rating The Commitments Mel Cooper 13/01/2017et again I have attended a touring production of what is, in essence, a compilation musical. This time, however, the...
Reviewer's Rating The Rocky Horror Show Mel Cooper 16/12/2016ith some recent recasting, the touring production of The Rocky Horror Show has returned to Oxford as a Christmas treat...
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...
