... Charlie Brown UPSTREAM THE PEANUTS strip cartoon, now apparently as much a favourite this side of the Atlantic as in America, is back at Upstream, packing them in for an extended holiday run. This production is by Jeremy James Taylor with designs nicely ...

... voice and feeling seem to emerge best when he is evoking the atmosphere and past life of the old farmstead in an eastern America outback which is his set ting. The ageing farmer. Dodge, ill and mentally unstable, and his wife Halie, are suddenly faced ...

... black smiths and gunsmiths. Pomerance's theme is the labour pain of an ancient society, Europe, giving birth to a new one, America. His style is lyrical, his setting the Kansas city of Lawrence and his subject the destruction of that township by the notorious ...

... Italian Eugenio Barba in Norway in 1964, they moved to Denmark two years later, then to Southern Italy. Yugo slavia. South America, the island of Bali, the Far East, living, studying and performing in each country The Million incorporates a vivid and ...

... Metropolitan Opera season can celled, the WNO brought off a remar kable coup, in bringing the Puerto Rico-born Pablo Elvira from America to Cardiff for his British debut. His superb voice lifted the whole performance, his tone and finely ludged phrasing delighting ...

... choreography in 1972 and formed her own company in 1974. She has been building an in creasingly strong reputation in her native America, and this has gradu ally filtered through to these shores. I had. however, gleaned no hint of the richness of her invention ...

... can bear. While they live mostly on some Italian hillside in an isolated cottage overlooking the sea, they travel also to America and to Australia. We learn of the public reaction to his paintings, of his mockery of fig- leaves and of his lust for the ...

... Bern stein's music and Stephen Sond- heim's lyrics soon take over, and by the time Debbie Allen as Anita has Lunched into America, we are no longer making comparisons with the pasl. She certainly achieves the remarkable feat of being so vivacious and ...

... family crisis, and there is a sense of the work apply ing to many families throughout New York, not to mention the whole of America. While you are drawn into the story and Miller's prospecting for life and character, the play never really be comes totally ...

... work as an exile on Broad wav after 1936, our talented trio conjured cryptic cameos from Weill's vision of an angst-ridden America, and successfully demons trated that you won't need an Arts Council grant to enjoy this show. Steve Absalom ...

... demonstrated, his movements were quite beautiful. But even though there are so many more classes, teachers and small groups in America, I think technically our standards are equally good, and our own company stands up very well by comparison. In New York there's ...

... no one else is. Dance standards in Britain have been gradually improving until now they're nearly as good as they are in America, though a recent crop of boys I saw was decidedly below par. I think places like the Dance Centre, teachers like Arlene Phillips ...