Charles Dickens’s novels were so popular in the 19th century they were pirated and staged before he had even finished writing them. Victorian readers and theatregoers loved the melodrama. In the 20th ...
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Having just seen Andrew Scott’s one-man virtuoso version, it’s great to be able to see the play Chekhov actually wrote and to be able to follow what is going on; and even more so when it is directed b ...
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Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! premiered in New York in 1943. A major landmark in the history of the Broadway musical, it went on to run for 2,212 performances. The last time London ...
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Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 3 (2020) TOM STOPPARD A Life by Hermione Lee (Faber). Anybody who has enjoyed Stoppard’s plays will want to read Hermione Lee’s lengthy and astute biography. Ther ...
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