Preview: Hoi Polloi – An Unproduced 1945 Noel Coward Musical!
Background Barry Day OBE, Literary Advisor to The Noel Coward Society, Author, and Truffle Hound for all things Coward, serendipitously got [...]
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Natasha’s Dream – Ambitious and Imaginative
When fifteen year-old, state orphan Natasha Banina jumps out a third floor window on a dare, she’s wounded and taken to a hospital. [...]
Fiorello! – Sheer Delight!
In an election year full of worst possible behavior and damaging convictions, it’s uplifting to be reminded of a man of principle. (The [...]
The Magnificent 7 – A Team of Outcasts Fights to Save a Town
“I’m so bummed this isn’t a Quentin Tarantino film!” The young woman behind me couldn’t be faulted for believing that The [...]
Five Films About Whistleblowers
With Oliver Stone’s Snowden in theaters (read our review), now seems like a good time to remember some other cinematic entries about [...]
A Taste of Honey– Splendid Acting
Playwright Shelagh Delaney grew up after World War II weathering the bleak conditions depicted in this, her first play. Joan Littlewood’s [...]
Notorious – The Drama Behind Cable News
Wendy Walker spent 32 years at CNN, 18 of those as the senior executive producer for Larry King Live. Criminal defense attorney, Mark [...]
Kiefer Sutherland as the Designated Survivor
In Fox’s hit drama, 24, Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer was credited with saving the lives of more than one American president. In [...]
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