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More Play Reviews: CITY LIT

... CITY LIT Nights at Drury Lane MANY SHOWS about a particular theatre or town have little relevance out side it. But the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is one of those buildings which means something to nearly everyone. Stella Quilley has made a kaleidoscope ...

Published: Thursday 29 April 1982
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 12 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre News: New appointments in Stoll Moss Group

... director of administra tion and group light entertainment broker, and George Hoare, general manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, will retire, though Swift will stay on as a non-executive director and Hoare is to become the group's theatre historian ...

Published: Thursday 13 May 1982
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 339 | Page: 2 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre News: Stoll Moss reshuffle

... director responsible for theatre operations, and John A very, general manager of the London Palladium and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is named theatre supervisor, responsible for front-of-house operation of all Stoll Moss London theatres. Other new appointments ...

Published: Thursday 31 March 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 2 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Getting by more on artifice than art

... Getting by more on artifice than art DRURY LANE The Pirates Of Pen- zance THE BROADWAY version of The Pirates of Penzance is not likely to upset Gilbert and Sullivan traditionalists too much, for the original is all there and it even has two additional ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1982
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 510 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: CORNER THEATRE

... also a handsome dowry, but is disappointed on this count. Seeking escape from an odious marriage, Charlotte is taken up by Drury Lane and eventually returns to the north to settle her account with the family that disowned her. Binns' music is alternatively ...

Published: Thursday 14 August 1986
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 238 | Page: 15 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Byron fighting for freedom and justice

... fighting for freedom and justice YOUNG VIC Marino Faliero BYRON WAS intensely interested in the theatre, involved with work at Drury Lane, and with great earnestness wrote a number of plays, only one of them being staged during his lifetime, Marino Faliero ...

Published: Thursday 28 October 1982
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 257 | Page: 27 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAY REVIEWS: Heavily electronic pirates score

... Donizetti described as a 'pop opera' and called Non Pasquale. It s doubtful if this production will make it to Broadway or Drury Lane. There is less Donizetti in Elliott's heavily electronic score than there was Sullivan in Pirates. The libretto by Nancy ...

Published: Thursday 29 September 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 281 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Kingsley on Kean

... poverty-stricken youth, his trudging around the provinces trying to get a foothold in the profession which will lead to Drury Lane or Covent Garden, his tenacity, dedication and high individuality all come over, as well as aspects of the theatre of his ...

Published: Thursday 28 April 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 307 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

Opera: Those heavenly voices

... Paris, and Gerald O'Beirne, making a promising operatic debut, the helpful Mercury. Unlike the first performance in 1741 at Drury Lane, when Arne's Rule Britannia was also played, Intermezzi thought it prudent to depart from their advertised programme and ...

Published: Thursday 08 July 1982
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 299 | Page: 21 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Harris leads the way in this sparkling revival

... work, right is more potent than might, justice is for all men. The show in all ways faired better in the much more suitable Drury Lane, bul Michael Rudman's direction here, frotr the New York production by Frank Dunlop, has been well gauged to tht resources ...

Published: Thursday 02 December 1982
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 280 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Vague and trite

... Christopher Blake, John Carson, Lalla Ward and Dominic Guard. R.B. Marriott ANNIE ROSS, as Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance at Drury Lane, catalogues her misfortunes to, from left to right. SYLVESTER McCOY (Samuel), TIM CURRY (the Pirate King) and MICHAEL PRAED ...

Published: Saturday 06 March 1982
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

STRATFORD

... gantly furnished interiors. and richly costumed characters--created for the new proscenium arch stages of theatres like Drury Lane and director Roger Michell and designer Ullz have decided to empna- sise the stage's different style. The comedy is played ...

Published: Thursday 21 April 1988
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 322 | Page: 19 | Tags: theatre review