Monthly Archives: August 2014

The Scoop is an open-air sunken amphitheatre on the South Bank of the Thames, just along from Tower Bridge and bang next door to the Mayor of London’s office, which provides free entertainment from June to September for audiences who … Continue reading →

Nancy Savoca’s film, starring River Phoenix and Lily Taylor, released in 1991, was critically and commercially unsuccessful. Dogfight has now been turned into an Off-Broadway musical by Peter Buchan with music and lyrics by Ben J Pasek and Justin Paul. … Continue reading →

For the third year running, there is a summer-long, May to September, festival of cabaret, circus and sideshows and it is taking place on a site right next to Hungerford Bridge and the Golden Jubilee Bridges, and seconds away from … Continue reading →

Rolf Hochhuth’s comic strip history is a didactic danse macabre danced by Emperor Franz Joseph, King Edward VII, Winston Churchill, King Wilhelm II, Grand Admiral von Tirpitz, General Helmuth von Moltke and many others who were responsible for getting Europe … Continue reading →

Rutland Boughton (1878-1960), a forgotten figure in the history of British music, was the founder and director of the Glastonbury Festival where he mounted over 350 works, chamber concerts, recitals and exhibitions. His artistic directorship came to an abrupt end … Continue reading →

Most schools these days have zero tolerance on bullying. But how do you stop cyber-bullying on the internet via computers and mobile devices? 43% of children have been bullied on line. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among … Continue reading →

Kevin Elyot’s comedy of manners gets its first London revival since its premiere twenty years ago. Sadly, the playwright died a month ago, just as Robert Hestie’s production was going into rehearsal. He was 62 and had been ill for … Continue reading →

Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s musical premiered in New York in 2005 and is based on an American novel by Sherley Anne Williams, a story of slavery from a woman’s point of view, and written in response to William Styron’s … Continue reading →