The West End isn’t facing the final curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 14, 2008
This buzzy, caffeine-addicted British impresario ought to be on top of the world. Two of her Broadway productions - Tom Stoppard’s Rock’ n’ Roll and the old farce Boeing-Boeing - have just been nominated for 10 Tony Awards in New York, the US theatre’s equivalent of the Oscars.
A host of other Brits have also been [...]
Social housing and the war against anti social behaviour
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on January 12, 2008
The social housing sector is a frontline force in the %26lsquo;war against yobs, but given worries about privacy, civil liberties, and the rise of a %26lsquo;surveillance society, is there a danger that the mechanisms to protect us from anti-social behaviour can become themselves anti-social?
Its a paradox that might one day come back to haunt [...]