It is hard to believe that Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème could have failed at its premiere in Turin in 1896, when it was conducted by the 28-year-old Toscanini. It’s one of the great tearjerkers of all ...
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The success of Alan Bennett’s monologue, A Woman of No Importance, with an award-winning performance by Patricia Routledge in 1982, encouraged Bennett to write more monologues for television. TALKING ...
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Evidently not Wayne McGregor. Many others have attempted to stage and film her works and failed. McGregor’s three one-act ballets inspired by her novels, Mrs Dalloway, ...
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How fantastic! Thousands of people can still “go to the theatre” to enjoy The Shoe Lady! Katherine Parkinson won’t hear their response to her wonderful, powerfully emotional performance, but sur ...
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