Jets And Sharks Bring Curtain Up
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on December 24, 2008
To publicise the opening of its new theatre, Alleyn’s School in Dulwich staged one of the most critically acclaimed musicals of the twentieth century, writes Mark Campbell.
The Michael Croft Theatre is named after the founder of the National Youth Theatre and a former teacher at the school. It’s a spacious, high-ceilinged venue, ideally suited to [...]
Curtain Call presents ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on July 9, 2008
Tragedy and true love will take the stage this summer at Shakespeare on the Green in Stamford.
This weekend kicks off Curtain Call’s fifth annual free Shakespeare performance featuring the bard’s famous play “Romeo and Juliet.”
“We played it safe for the past four years it’s about time for a tragedy,” said Lou Ursone, executive director of [...]
Stratford raises another curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 25, 2008
Right Here’s parents were first thrilled by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival at its birth when the Bard and all the world and the players and the amazed audience were under a tent.
That amazing tent vanished in the 1950s, but tradition of Shakespeare at Stratford continues this week when the festival’s 2008 season opens tomorrow with [...]