19 stories by "Veronica Horwell"
Award-winning wigmaker who was always in great demand for Broadway musicals, West End shows, film and televisionPatti LuPone's second-act wig for the 1979 Broadway production of Evita is sub…
Channing, who has died aged 97, starred in Hello Dolly! and Thoroughly Modern Millie, and had a genius for characterThornton Wilder, having seen Carol Channing in Hello Dolly!, the 1964 Broa…
Teacher, choreographer and popular judge on the BBC's Come DancingAlthough Peggy Spencer's life revolved around the ballroom, she never thought of herself as a dancer or choreographer; she w…
When Napoleon's defeat was retold at Philip Astley's Amphitheatre in 1824 " complete with handsome equine stars, orchestra and explosions " it dazzled audiences and set the pattern for milit…
Good fight direction can make all the difference to the credibility of war scenes in both drama and dance. Here's how two current productions " Shakespeare's King John and Rosie Kay's 5 Sold…
From All My Sons to The Crucible and beyond, the great playwright captured America's financial, as well as existential, desperationArthur Miller called The American Clock, which premiered in…
The Bards scripted end-of-play dance is a loose, chaotic and robust revival of energy to reward the audience Continue reading...
Sondheim's The Ladies Who Lunch was the defining song of Elaine Stritch's life. With two classic performances, delivered 30 years apart in London, she brought down the house From Sondheim to…
Soon to appear in film form with Meryl Streep as the Witch, Sondheim's plainest musical blends adult stories with grim fairytales to spellbinding effect Into the Woods' sex isn't censored fo…
As the RSC's heroines season continues, explore theatre's tradition of wisecracking, swashbuckling, roaring girlsThere isn't a surviving copy of the 1590 first edition of The Life of Long Me…
How do site-specific theatre companies pick the magical venues to host their elaborate productions? Veronica Horwell tours London to find the stories behind Venice Preserv'd and The Drowned …
From Liberace candelabras to fiery breeches, the theatre's Cumbrian-made candles shed a unique light on its showsThe candles at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse couldn't be more simple and elegan…
Derek Jarman is remembered as an innovative film-maker and artist but his stage work is key to his career " even his own residence was a performanceDerek Jarman wandered into theatre, as he …
Oscar-winning actor who played threatened heroines for Alfred Hitchcock in Rebecca and SuspicionIt was hard to cast the lead in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 193…
Vaslav Nijinsky's brief career and doomed existence is tackled with angry unsentimentalityVaslav Nijinsky was almost immobile at the last moment of his real life. Only his expressive hands m…
Award-winning costume designer who dressed Judy Garland and Diana Ross and oversaw the Oscar red carpetNow that television talent contests are gussied up to Vegas standards, it's less easy t…
Innovative costume designer for stage and screen, she won an Oscar and three TonysTheoni V Aldredge, who has died aged 88, could and did do anything with clothes, on Broadway stage or film; …
Veronica Horwell salutes a meticulous and magical survey of balletWhen I reached the final chapter of Jennifer Homans's history of ballet, I knew that, sadly, it would come to dominate not t…
Veronica Horwell on the ballet company that redefined fashionThe story conventionally goes that Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes landed with a crash on the Paris stage in 1909 and cha…
