by Web Editor | Nov 30, 2015 | Drama
… and press releases Dangle and Sneer Funny Girl, the musical about Fanny Brice associated indelibly with Barbra Streisand, returns to the West End next year after a gap of fifty years according to a deluge of advance publicity turned into stories by show business...
by Web Editor | Nov 30, 2015 | Music
Soap opera scrubs up well Mark Valencia Among Italian operas à la française, Zazà has fared particularly badly. Though more credible than Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur and better structured than Puccini’s La rondine, Leoncavallo’s tale is a domestic doodle with as little...
by Web Editor | Nov 25, 2015 | Drama
… and some harsh words on awards William Russell The Stage is even older than we are. The Circle has been going since 1913, The Stage for 135 years. Set up in 1880 has a new look. Editor Alistair Smith says they wanted to unite the paper and its website under a single...
by Web Editor | Nov 22, 2015 | Visual Arts
Clare Finn Here is a show that surely has something for everyone. Calder’s creation of aerial, delicately twirling, balletic structures would change sculpture fundamentally. At a time when mass and solidity were still the main modus operandi for sculpture, then made...
by Web Editor | Nov 18, 2015 | Music
From Morning to Yawning Tom Sutcliffe John Fosse converted to Roman Catholicism in 2013 (having been a member of the Lutheran Church of Norway, which is rather like the C of E in its range of semi-Catholic varieties of Protestantism). I guess his 2001 novel Morning...
