Monthly Archives: March 2014

Angela Lansbury is known to cinemagoers for the ruthless communist in Richard Condon’s The Manchurian Candidate, to television viewers for the detective novelist in Murder She Wrote, to Broadway theatergoers for the title role in Mame and Mrs. Lovett in … Continue reading →

The production, which began with workshops and still looks like a workshop, is an illustrated lecture about soldiers returning from Afghanistan. The performing arts have been regularly used as recuperative therapy for the physically and psychologically wounded. The script by … Continue reading →

KINGS OF THE DANCE celebrated the male dancer and was a showcase for the virtuosity of five celebrated international dancers: Roberto Bolle, Marcelo Gomes, Denis Matvienko, Leonid Sarafanov and Ivan Vasiliev. The high spots were the strong, emotional and energy-driven … Continue reading →

Pilobolus is an American modern dance company and they take their name from a backyard fungus which constantly changes its shape. I first saw them in the late 1970’s and much enjoyed their work and skill. Shadowland, which is being … Continue reading →

The title for this award-winning musical by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis is inevitably going to put a lot of people off. In a clever stroke, the musical cleverly and amusingly acknowledges this practically immediately and makes a joke about … Continue reading →

Stephen Sondheim thought he had made a really bad decision when he agreed to write the lyrics to Richard Rodgers’ music. The two men did not get on. The 1965 musical was based on a popular Broadway play, The Time … Continue reading →

It’s a long time since I have seen something quite as bad as this one-man show. You would have to be feeling pretty depressed to want to break into the Prado in Madrid and spend the whole night looking at … Continue reading →

10 million soldiers and 7 million civilians died in World War 1. Many historians feel that the Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on 28th June 1919, far from ensuring an enduring peace actually precipitated World War 2. Peter Gill … Continue reading →