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 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mel Cooper 15/07/2015he Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time has been an awards magnet and one can see why in...
Reviewer's Rating Love Me Tender Mel Cooper 07/07/2015t is my growing opinion that the modern compendium musical is the replacement for old time vaudeville or music hall:...
Reviewer's Rating The Producers Mel Cooper 03/07/2015 happen to have seen this show in its original productions in New York and London as well as the film...
Reviewer's Rating Calamity Jane Mel Cooper 10/06/2015 went to see this worried that the stage version would be overshadowed by the classic Doris Day/Howard Keel film and...
Reviewer's Rating Jersey Boys Mel Cooper 16/05/2015ne of the most successful of the compilation shows is Jersey Boys, telling the story of the Four Seasons, Frankie...
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...
Dirty Dancing Mel Cooper 14/12/2014he Christmas Show at the New Theatre in Oxford this year is not a traditional Pantomime, nor is it a...