American playwright Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), of German-Jewish heritage, was blacklisted in 1952 when she refused to name names before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. “I Cannot,” she ...
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London’s West End has a new theatre, the beautiful and intimate Soho Place Theatre in Charing Cross Road, just a minute’s walk from Tottenham Court Road tube station. The theatre seats 600 and its sha ...
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LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER (Netflix). Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read? Who can forget the 1960 trial for obscenity laughed out of court and the censorship l ...
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SLEEPING BEAUTY was first staged by Charles Robinson Planché as an extravaganza in London in 1840 and has been a popular pantomime in Britain ever since. There is always a choice: Tchaikovsky, live, a ...
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