... assault. Berlin and Beyond traces the dis rupted life of Kurt Weill as he fled from Nazi Germany in 1933 to a new life in America. The story is told by his wife, Lotte Lenya, and Bertolt Brecht. Christina Matthews put her musical comedy and cabaret experience ...

... sleeve and it is quite clear that if the play is going to go anywhere, then the guard will have to perceive the error of America's ways and the full horror of the approaching Holocaust. This be dutifully docs, being almost instan taneously transformed ...

... US act fails to adapt SHAW The Adaptors HAILED as one of the hottest com panies in America, I can only say that the performance of Autobahn by The Adaptors turned out to be quite a let down. Here were 1 2 actors at least that was the number in the final ...

... celebrated its 15th anniversary with a special season at the Joyce Theatre featuring several new productions. It's the oldest of America's 'junior' companies and regularly develops new stars for Joffrey and other companies. The present contingent look as promis ...

... trusty Watson as they were originally drawn rather than as the parodies they have later become. It is set both in industrial America and 20 years later in an English country house, and Leonard Birchenall, in his last design for the Vic, has created a set ...

... The Gin Game WESTCLIFF FONSIA and Weller meet at an old people's home somewhere in North America. He suggests a game of cards, convinced that he is something of a sharper. They play, she protesting that she is rather out of practice. She wins. Every time ...

... however, as the six ac tors encompassed a host of differnent roles in the nine scenes dealing with the impact of Europe on the Americas. The play uses historical incidents and real characters to build a multi-layered picture of the relationship between the ...

... as far as one can tell, as produced by Monstrous Regiment, he must deserve the reputa tion he has already earned in Latin America. The Drill Hall with its cave-like auditorium lends itself to Iona McLeish's excellent design. To the soundtrack of the theme ...

... Bernard Slade's Same Time Next Year has been produced in '5 countries and was voted one of the ten most popular plays in America. This two-hander has a quite remarkable plot as a couple spend a weekend together on the same day every year for 35 years ...

... Canary FINBOROUGH THE CANARY in this new play by Barb Jungr is Stella, an English jazz singer who had gone to America to make her fortune at the height of the Big Band era. A rehearsal for a comeback tour, and the questions and preconceptions of a would-be ...

... play. Temporarily housed at the Donmar Warehouse the play, like his earlier Kiss of the Spider Woman, is set in South America, similarly concentrating on two incarcer ated figures, this time rich patient (Brenda Bruce) and poor nurse (Gemma Jones) ...

... theatre over the last three-and-a-half years which isn't bad, said Michael Me Kevin, who ran the venue until leaving for America last year. He has been happy to deal with the other theatre companies there, he added. Petherbridge claims the Falcon is ...