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Theatre It was Oscar Wilde’s first major theatrical hit, but Lady Windermere’s Fan is rather better known these days for its famous one-liners than its content.
Theatre In recent years Australian circus has dusted itself off and boasts such wonders as Circa and Acrobat.
Dance The Royal Ballet’s latest double bill pairs George Balanchine’s Ballo Della Regina from the 1970s with the early 19th century La Sylphide by August Bournonville.
Theatre Like an assertiveness training session for women, the first show of Oval House’s OUTLAWS season suggests getting in touch with your inner pirate in order to find out who you really are, (sisters).
Theatre The original Broadway production of Jekyll and Hyde ran for a respectable four years, despite lukewarm reviews, and, while there has never been a major production in the West End, the show had toured the UK with a modicum of success.
Theatre South Africa’s Isango Ensemble, based in Cape Town, previously won an Olivier Award for its Young Vic and West End run of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and is now back in London with a three-show repertory that displays, tests and expands the ensemble’s skills in different directions.
Theatre Following revivals of Arnold Wesker’s The Kitchen and Chicken Soup with Barley, marking the playwright’s 80th birthday, the King’s Head presents the London premiere of a work written in 1997 and originally staged at the Bristol Old Vic.
Theatre When philandering husband Tom discovers that his wife has been having an affair he flees the marital home intent on seeking out the lover and destroying him.
Theatre Flora the Red Menace may be a footnote show in the history of Broadway musicals, but it has left an indelible footprint - it marked not only the first Broadway collaboration of composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb (who would go on to become one of the most enduring of all Broadway songwriting teams), but also featured the Broadway debut of a 19-year-old Liza Minnelli in the title role, for which she won her first Tony Award.
Theatre Lindsay Posner’s production demonstrates that this powerful examination of the snap and crackle of suburban angst and frustration has enough fire in its belly to make for a searching, moving and above all relevant evening of theatre in 2012.
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