In 2015 for the first time in its history the Royal Shakespeare Company cast a black actor as Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello When Iqbal Khan’s modern dress, multi-racial production began I thought they ...
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Cinderella has been a popular pantomime ever since its very first spectacular production in 1830 at Drury Lane starring Joseph Grimaldi, the great clown of the Regency era. There have been many versio ...
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UNORTHODOX (Netflix), a mini-series in four episodes, is based on Deborah Feldman’s memoir: Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots. A young woman (Shira Hass, excellent), 19-years-ol ...
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Giuseppe Verdi had his first big success in 1842 when Nabucodonosor premiered at La Scala in Milan. “With this opera,” he said, “my artistic career can truly be said to have begun.” The present produc ...
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