The way Shylock, the Jewish moneylender, is portrayed has changed over the centuries. Initially, in Shakespeare’s day, he was played as a comic villain. In 1741, Charles Macklin was the first actor to ...
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Cameron Mackintosh, who had a lifetime of collaboration with Stephen Sondheim, devised Old Friends, a spectacular, one-night, all-star ensemble gala concert in 2022 to honour Sondheim who had died in ...
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Michael Frayn’s Noises Off premiered in 1982. It went through three casts and played over 1,000 performances. It has been often revived world-wide ever since. It’s about the hazards facing a company o ...
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Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, a major turning point in Britten’s career and English opera, is revived with great success. David Alden’s stark and brutal 2009 production, conducted by Martyn Brabbin ...
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