Monthly Archives: February 2014

Many people, actors, directors, academics, think King Lear is Shakespeare’s greatest work. Awesome in its power and relentless in its horrors, it is excessively long and notoriously difficult to stage well. Evil triumphs. It is not surprising that it is … Continue reading →

Lope de Vega, the greatest dramatist of Spain’s Golden Age, tells a tragic tale with considerable wit, irony and humanity. Written in 1613, it is generally considered his masterpiece and, on the evidence of this rare, fine and well-acted ensemble … Continue reading →

Canadian photographer Paul Watson, covering the war in Somalia in 1993, takes a picture of a dead and mutilated American soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, which wins him a Pulitzer Prize. As he bent down to take … Continue reading →

A likeable revue celebrates the melodious and witty songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb, best known for two great Broadway musicals, Cabaret and Chicago. There is a cast of five mature dancers. Sam Spencer Lane’s angular choreography pays tribute … Continue reading →

At Shakespeare’s Globe a delightful new indoor playhouse, a unique and intimate space, fit for dramas, masques, chamber concerts and opera, with a capacity for 340, has been built inside the foyer area. The theatre is named after the American … Continue reading →

Equal rights for women, marriage versus career: have women’s lives changed in the last 40 years? Are men any less mediocre than they were? What impact has internet pornography had on the American psyche? “I want to come home!” says … Continue reading →

A young woman, working for MI6, is murdered. Her sister determines to find out who did it and why? Dawn King tells a story of double agents, Muslim informers and Russian diplomats, out of sequence with jump cuts as if … Continue reading →