Torch songs are lighting up the city this year, from Alan Cumming's take on Adele's Someone Like You to Lady Rizo's anthem of a sleep-deprived mum"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is," observes Amanda in Private Lives, Noël Coward's play about the lovers who can't live with " and can't live without " each other. Amanda and Elyot are as much in thrall to music and its ability to evoke deep feelings as anyone el…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AM on August 21, 2016