Review: The Matchgirls
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...
Julia Rank
Review: London Wall
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...
Review: The Turn of the Screw
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 ...
Review: 55 Days
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...
Review: The Busy Body
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...
Review: The Bartered Bride
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...
