It's as British as cricket, the BBC and sticky toffee pudding. It's music hall: the variety-act entertainment that was hugely popular in the sceptered isle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Similar to American vaudeville in format and fate (both fell victim to the ascent of movies and television), music hall left its own imprint on Anglophone culture. Playwright Samuel Beckett was famously influenced by musi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:29PM on June 6, 2014