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The New York Times Reviews Neil Simon by Erik Piepenburg and Jason Bailey

Mr. Simon was a prolific chronicler of New York City life. Here’s a look at reviews of “Barefoot in the Park,” “The Odd Couple,” “Brighton Beach Memoirs” and other plays and ad…

Rose Matafeo wins Edinburgh best comedy show award by Vanessa Thorpe Arts and Media Correspondent

New Zealander’s show about sex and modern social mores scoops top comedy gongThe New Zealander Rose Matafeo has won the coveted best comedy show award at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.Her …

British choreographer and mime Lindsay Kemp dies by Vanessa Thorpe Observer Arts and Media Correspondent

Influential avant garde creative force who worked with David Bowie dies in Italy, aged 80Lindsay Kemp, the experimental British choreographer and mime, who made his name in the 1960s and col…

Andy Einhorn, David Dabbon, and Giacomo by Told By Andy Einhorn and David Dabbon

Andy: I love orange tabbies - they’re great fun and usually crazy!David: He said to me, ‘‘Hopefully, we can get a cat one day but I understand your allergies are bad.’ So I said ‘w…

Track-by-Track Breakdown: Peter Kellogg and David Friedman Go Deep on Their Desperate Measures Score by Peter Kellogg and David Friedman

Currently running at New World Stages, Desperate Measures takes Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, ups the comedy, and sets the whole thing in the Wild Wild West.

'Our memories have vanished': the Palestinian theatre destroyed in a bomb strike by Hazem Balousha In Gaza City and Oliver Holmes In Jerusalem

The Said al-Mishal Centre brought theatre, dance and music to the beleaguered residents of Gaza City. Its destruction in an Israeli air strike last week has sparked outrage – and dealt a h…

‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ recoups its $4 million investment by Caitlin Huston and Jeremy Gerard

“The Play That Goes Wrong” has recouped its $4 million capitalization, 17 months after it began performances on Broadway. The play originally announced it would be closing on Au…

SOUTH PACIFIC - Through Time and History by Rodgers and Hammerstein

EMILIA Shakespeare’s Globe, SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

DARK LADY DEMANDING LIMELIGHT        The Globe has had some tremendous new-writing about history, for which it is nicely suited.  Remember Howard Brenton’s Anne Boleyn and  Dr Sc…

Edinburgh Fringe: Unconditional - What it's like performing a play as a mother daughter duo by Stefanie Mueller and Josie Dale-Jones, Stefanie Mueller and Josie Dale-Jones

Josie Dale-Jones and Stefanie Mueller, who co-wrote and perform Unconditional, reveal their working life at the Fringe

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford upon Avon by Libby Purves and Friends

WHAT LARKS…     There is a swimming-pool ladder, a rubber-ring shaped like a swan, a robotic golf cart, some decorative flamingos (one used as a weapon) , and a statue of Queen E…

Broadway dresser, Evelyn LeBel and Master Technician at the Second Stage Tony Kiser Theatre, Chris Stepanek and their cat Willow by Told By Evelyn Lebel and Chris Stepanek

Chris: We got her in February at Meow ParlourEvelyn: It's a cat cafe. it's $6 an hour and you go in and play with all the cats for an hour and you can get coffee and macarons.Chris: All the …

GREEK Arcola, E8 by Libby Purves and Friends

GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI MARVELS AT GREEK PERFECTION AT GRIMEBORN Like the roar of an older, bolder London, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s GREEK bounces snarling onto the Grimeborn stage, c…

HYMN TO LOVE Jermyn St Theatre WC2 by Libby Purves and Friends

LA PETITE PIAF, REVENANTE..     I grew up with Piaf, a temporary French schoolchild in 1960, skated around the patinoire with my friends snarling along with the endless plays of  “Je ne…

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Arcola, E8 by Libby Purves and Friends

GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS THE BOYS GET ALL THE DRAMA AT GRIMEBORN Lucia di Lammermoor is an opera of shocking brutality, with savage emotional aggression rivalling physical viole…

ARISTOCRATS Donmar, WC2 by Libby Purves and Friends

DREAMS AND LEGENDS OF DECAY   Brian Friel’s gift is humane ambiguity, refusing to allow  tidy judgements on his characters .  Or even – though his theme is Ireland’s history…

Review: "West Side Story" at Barrington Stage by Mark G Auerbach and Benjamin Jacek

Westfield News Group Review: "West Side Story" at Barrington Stage, in celebration of the centennials of Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins. Dynamic choreography by Robert LaFosse. .

BRING IT ON Southwark Playhouse SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

HIP HOP HURRAH ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS   Here’s a hot one, in every sense.  Clapped till my hands stuck together at this youthful, truthful, touching and funny tale of acroba…

Laura Benanti is Baaaaaaaaack! by Patrick Hinds and Mike Jensen

Laura Benanti needs no introduction, you guys!! The Tony winner and five-time nominee joined me live on the main stage at Broadway con where we chatted like old pals....in front of 2500 peop…

THE PROMETHEUS REVOLUTION Arcola, E8 by Libby Purves and Friends

GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS REVOLUTION NOT GOING FAR IN A WORLD PREMIERE AT GRIMEBORN Prometheus stole fire from the gods in order to ensure human progress, and met with a grisly e…

SOUTH PACIFIC 60th Anniversary - Fathom Events Trailer by Rodgers and Hammerstein

THE SOUND OF MUSIC - Fathom Events Trailer by Rodgers and Hammerstein

"The Sound of Music" - THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) by Rodgers and Hammerstein

"The Lonely Goatherd" - THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) by Rodgers and Hammerstein

"Do-Re-Mi" - THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) by Rodgers and Hammerstein

"Bali Ha'i" - SOUTH PACIFIC (1958) by Rodgers and Hammerstein

"You've Got To Be Carefully Taught" - SOUTH PACIFIC (1958) by Rodgers and Hammerstein

"I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" - SOUTH PACIFIC (1958) by Rodgers and Hammerstein

Fathom Events, with The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, Twentieth Century Fox, and Turner Classic Movies are thrilled to present South Pacific: A Special 60th Anniversary Event, in cinem…

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Vaudeville, WC1 by Libby Purves and Friends

A HANDBAG?     You’re not often given a  surprise by Lane the butler in in his short appearance,  as he delivers those immortally celebrated cucumber sandwiches to the piano-strumm…

LITTLE MERMAID. Underbelly Festival, S Bank SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

DANCE AND DEFIANCE BELOW THE WAVES          Metta theatre’s hit JUNGLE BOOK was fashionably hip-hop before Hamilton hit  (and was certainly the only time I ever heard grime and c…