Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal was first produced in New York in 1928 but it did not arrive in London until 1931, delayed by difficulties of censorship. The Lord Chamberlain objected to the intimat ...
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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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