It is a commonplace to say that A Month in the Country is the best play Chekhov did not write; but in fact, though Turgenev does anticipate Chekhov, it is still very much a romantic drama of its own t ...
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Cole Porter’s High Society is based on The Philadelphia Story, the Broadway play Philip Barry wrote for Katharine Hepburn in 1939. It ran for 417 performances. Today, its reputation rests entirely on ...
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Peter Shaffer’s Equus premiered in 1973 and was an instant box-office success. Lindsay Posner’s production is its first London revival since 2007 when photographs of the naked 17-year-old Daniel Radcl ...
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Peter Schaffer’s Black Comedy was originally seen at Chichester Festival Theatre in 1965 with Derek Jacobi, Albert Finney and Maggie Smith in a production by John Dexter. It became an instant classic, ...
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