The swinging sixties might have launched the Beatles and the Stones and the Age of Aquarius, but it was also a time in which musicals with Victorian or Edwardia...
The synopsis of John Van Druten’s 1931 play London Wall (filmed twice for television, but rarely seen since) calls to mind a British Mad Men. It’s telling t...
Henry James’s 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw is one of the ripest pieces of fiction for re-reading. One never ceases to marvel at Henry's genius in ...
The stereotypical image of the English Civil War is that of clumsy Roundheads and graceful Cavaliers - when I think of this period, it's Keeping Up Appearance...
Egad: I adored this show from the very beginning. Dispensing with the original prologue written by playwright Thomas Baker, in which the audience is asked not...
No one could accuse Bedrich Smetana of lacking in ambition: disappointed that Czechoslovakia (as it was then) rarely appeared on the cultural map of central Eur...