The biggest laugh at the English premiere of Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion in 1913 was when Eliza Doolittle rejects an offer of a walk across the park with a “Not bloody likely!” It was the first time “blo ...
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Sam Mendes commissioned Jack Thorne to write a play about John Gielgud directing Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway in 1964. Thorne took his inspiration from two books by actors who had been in the ...
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SYLVIA, the latest musical to open in London, takes what might be described as a Hamilton all-black approach to the suffragette movement in the UK from 1903 to 1928, when finally, everybody over 21 go ...
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Jonathan Spector’s American play, a debate, directed by Katy Rudd, takes place at an American private primary school in Berkeley, California. The school is faced with an outbreak of mumps and staff an ...
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