... reviews Captain Brassbound's Conversion by Bernard Share, at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. Verdict A timely and well-merited revival WHEN there is question of filling a theatre with a new play apparently it never does to forget Mr. Shaw. So managers ...

... Hamlet at the New Theatre By Horace Horsnell THE news that Robert Helpmann, who had already danced Hamlet, intended also to act him, fluttered the dovecots considerably. Would he? Could he? True he had already acted one Shakespearian role (Oberon at the ...

... the past, and it is true that not many houses calling themselves that are left in the West End, but a little tour of the theatres just now will discover plenty of music-hall comedians who are alive and kicking. Whether signed up in pantomime or in revue ...

... The Importance of Being Earnest. No doubt the point occurred to Mr. Noel Langley long before the entertainment reached the theatre. Happily, he did not allow himself to be dis concerted by it. He went unblenchingly on with his job of concocting effective ...

... lower ribs or provoke the ventral guffaw. But if its punches had been delivered by Broadway buffoons, every funny-bone in the theatre might have been dislocated, if not broken. Such idiomatic knockabout as Messrs. Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov have based ...

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... Cbt f Jj Life with Father (Savoy Theatre) THIS comedy, based on Clarence Day's sketches in the New Yorker of American family life on Madison Avenue in the eighties, opened in New York in 1939 and is still running. I shall be surprised if it breaks any ...

... THE THEATRE IN SHADOW THE TATLER AT THE THEATRE By ANTHONY COOKMAN THE West End theatre is, at the moment of writing, in all but total eclipse-- and even its best friends can work up no special grievance in the matter. Given the direct attack on London ...