Hayes Theatre, November 27 5.5/10 This is where the name for the hotels came from. All 1100 of them. Inspired by the 1942 movie starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, which was blessed with the music of Irving Berlin, the hotel chain arrived 10 years later. Six more decades would…
Category: Theatre Reviews
Wharf 1 Theatre, November 15 8/10 It is no coincidence that Lyn Nottage’s Sweat arrived in 2015, the year Donald Trump erupted on to the US political landscape. Nottage’s story – the demise of Rust Belt manufacturing, with its consequent social and economic upheaval – is precisely what underpinned Trump’s…
Belvoir St Theatre, November 14, 8.5/10 The August heat in Oklahoma’s Osage Country kills pet tropical birds. It doesn’t do much for the people, either. They claw at each other like pterodactyls because a soft heart equals vulnerability., when what’s needed to survive in Osage County – in the Weston…