Here in America, Orange Tree Theatre review - Elia Kazan and …
WEB9 hours ago — Pre-Trump 2.0, David Edgar’s new play tells us (at least twice, Edgar not shy of driving home a point) that we can learn from past trauma in order to guide current behaviour. So, 300 million+ Americans are to draw on Stanislavski's Method in the polling booths come November? The memories Edgar conjures are from the 1950s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee went after Hollywood ...
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Waiting for Godot, Theatre Royal Haymarket review – humanity in …
WEB1 day ago — How so? By casting celebrity stars in the main roles, and emphasizing the humour. So the current revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot — which premiered in Paris in 1953 and then got a London production a couple of years later — features Ben Whishaw, a national treasure since he voiced Paddington in the film series, the third instalment of which is due in November, as well as ...
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera review - the heart left cold
WEB1 hour ago — Emotional truth is elusive in Tchaikovsky’s “lyrical scenes” after Pushkin’s verse-novel. Overstress every feeling, as conductor Henrik Nánási did last night, and you leave some of us in the audience feeling manipulated. Play it cool, which is what we mostly get in Ted Huffman’s new production, and the heart is similarly untouched.
Michael Craig-Martin, Royal Academy - from clever conceptual art …
WEB1 day ago — Michael Craig-Martin was the most playful and provocative of the conceptual artists. His early sculptures are like visual puns, a play on the laws of nature. On the Table, 1970 (pictured below right), for instance, appears to defy gravity. Four buckets filled with water stand on a table; so far so ordinary. But the table has no legs and is suspended from the ceiling by ropes and pulleys.
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WEBShifters, Duke of York's Theatre review - star-crossed lovers shine in intelligent rom-com Gary Naylor Friday, 23 August 2024 . Pete Waterman, responsible (some might prefer the word guilty) for more than 100 Top 40 hits, said that a pop song is the hardest thing to write.
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Pavel Kolesnikov, Wigmore Hall review - unpredictable magic
WEBAll five finalists in the Leeds International Piano Competition, at which Pavel Kolesnikov was one of the jurors, should have been given tickets, transport and accommodation to hear …
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WEBBritain has world-class opera companies in the Royal Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera and Opera North, not to mention the celebrated country-house festival at Glyndebourne and others elsewhere. The first English opera was an experiment in 1656, as Civil War raged ...
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