THERE have been few dramas set around the Grand National. Indeed, it seems there have been none at all.
VINCENT VAN GOGH was to many the typical artist, often impoverished, a genius, mentally unstable, anguished and finally shooting himself to death. His paintings are now some of the most expensive in the world.
SHAKESPEARE wrote his plays for all-male casts, and now the Propeller Company is giving a superb illustration of why his men made such great women.
OH, BROTHER! Any red-blooded male visiting the musical Chicago at the Empire will probably be in need of a cold shower afterwards. And the ladies will have had their eyefuls, too.
WHEN Liverpool soldier Alan Jones was killed in Iraq this week, the news was noted by theatre director Hannah Eidinow. It added another depressing note to the drama, What I Heard About Iraq, which she is touring round the country.
IT MAY be just a 250-seater theatre based in a converted brewery warehouse, but the Donmar is just about the hottest theatre in London.
Darius has risen above the ridicule and forged a lasting career
FEW dance routines can have had such a staggering influence as that staged as an interval entertainment in the televised 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
WHEN Liverpool soldier Alan Jones was killed in Iraq this week, the news was noted by theatre director Hannah Eidinow. It added another depressing note to the drama, What I Heard About Iraq, which she is touring round the country.
OH, BROTHER! Any red-blooded male visiting the musical Chicago at the Empire will probably be in need of a cold shower afterwards. And the ladies will have had their eyefuls, too.