Monthly Archives: February 2010

A stand­ing ova­tion mag­ni­fi­cently deserved. Jan Gab­arek, Rainer Brun­ing­haus, Yuri Dniel and Trilok Gurtu in a stun­ning single  2   1/4 hour set of enorm­ous vari­ety with Brun­ing­haus and Gurtu in par­tic­u­lar get­ting a very fair share of solos.  As … Con­tinue read­ing →

Whereas the York Theatre Royal Pan­to­mime is the highest qual­ity load of old rub­bish you could ever hope to see in your life­time.  It just  gets more out­rageous every year — more cos­tume changes, more elab­or­ate sets, more ad lib­bing, … Con­tinue read­ing →

Actu­ally, it’s not, it’s rub­bish.  Enjoy­able rub­bish, true, but it’s not Meryl Streep at her best and it’s all about rich people in Cali­for­nic­a­tion.  I was actu­ally root­ing for the creep ex-husband but we should have been hop­ing she got … Con­tinue read­ing →