How singularly appropriate that The Prince of Wales should be performing at The Prince of Wales Theatre. Lampooning royalty has been going on for years. It began with Thomas Gillray and Andrew Cruiksh ...
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Carousel, based on a serious Hungarian play, Liliom, written by Ferenc Molnar in 1909, was a big success at its premiere in New York in 1945. It is amazing Molnar had agreed to a musical adaptation; a ...
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Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, which premiered in 1934, was the perfect light entertainment for audiences who had been through the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression. And it’s the perfect light ...
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David Mamet wrote Oleanna in response to the rise of political correctness in American universities in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It had a big impact at its premiere in 1992. Thirty years on the ...
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