Jerry Springer: The Opera - April 2003 The Scotsman - By Kate Copstick - April 11th, 2003

Well, dip me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians, but it seems that not only do dreams come true but nice guys don’t always finish last. On 8 February, 2001, Richard Thomas, alone at a piano, performed the incomplete first half of his brainchild Jerry Springer: the Opera to seven people at London’s…

Jerry Springer: The Opera - December 2002 CBS NEWS - December 10th, 2002

The line of cold, anxious performers stretches around the corner of a theater in London’s famed West End. Making up and warming up, nearly 100 hopefuls are here to try out for a production to be staged next season at Britain’s prestigious National Theater. It’s to be an opera, reports CBS News Correspondent Richard Roth…

Jerry Springer: Stage set for more outrage - December 2002 BBC.co.uk - By Bob Chaundy - December 6th, 2002

An opera based on the Jerry Springer talk show is to be staged at London’s Royal National Theatre. The man said by some to epitomise the lowest of low-brow now finds himself at the centre of one of the temples of high culture. Andrea wants to woo her ex-boyfriend Chuck by revealing to him, in…

Hytner era opens with cult opera - December 2002 The Guardian - By Fiachra Gibbons - December 5th, 2002

National Bound: Wills Morgan and Lucy Stevens in the Battersea Arts production of Jerry Springer: The Opera. As a statement of intent, it could not be clearer. Just as soon as the last tuxedos are tucked away from Cole Porter’s gentle musical Anything Goes, an altogether less housetrained beast is going to be unleashed on…

Pea Green Boat Interview - August 2002 The Scotsman - August 21st, 2002

Peas and cues - August 2002 The Metro - By Dominic Maxwell - August 19th, 2002

Comedy can be a frustrating business, even if you’re brilliant at it. For Stewart Lee, the process of being a stand-up became too much about crowd control, too little about the material. Famous as one half of TV’s Lee And Herring, he had worked on the circuit since university. After the duo were bafflingly cancelled…