Sisters Acting Up
It’s been pretty much open season on nuns since “The Sound of Music” and really there can be no greater irony than Alan Menken and lyricist whiz-kid Glenn Slater’s “Sister Act” following that venerable show into the…
Finishing the Heats
* Thursday, 21 May 2009 at 10:21 am For those less sad than I, the title is a pun on the Sondheim song “Finishing the Hat” from “Sunday in the Park with George – a song, a…
A Florentine Romance in Leicester?
Something extraordinary is happening in Leicester. The newly opened Curve Theatre – so high-tec, high-spec that it appears somehow to have “materialised” rather than been built in what was the scrag-end of Leicester’s town centre – is…
Premium Priscilla
Really, who could blame Queen Priscilla for eschewing the desert and installing herself at the Palace (theatre, that is)…. but just be careful where you sit. “Premium” seating (essentially the best seats in the house but with…