Frankie Goes to Bollywood reaches the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's Southbank (to 13 August 2024) after a short, successful UK tour. A Rifco Theatre Company production, it is a musical pastiche of the Bollywood genre. As such it offers an affectionate, often lampooning and not uncritical take on the outrageous musical extravagance that is Bollyw...

Upon arriving at Warsaw Chopin Airport, I was greeted by representatives from the Polish Tourist Board. One of the first things they said to me is that they want the preconceived notion that Warsaw still resonates with its past Soviet association to be put to bed. It was clear upon the drive from the Airport to the Hotel that the development, ...

A new production of the 1964 stage musical Hello Dolly is playing a limited summer season at the London Palladium. It stars Dame Imelda Staunton in the lead role along with a full cast. The plot sees 'meddlesome socialite turned matchmaker Dolly Levi travelling to Yonkers, New York to find a wife for grumpy Horace Vandergelder. He is a miserly, and...

The Brittany American Cemetery in Saint James, lower Normandy, sits quietly just on the outskirts of the town of Saint James. It is one of several sites in France operated by the ABMC, with this particular cimetière at the point where American forces broke through the hedgerows and rolling farmland on the Normandy/Brittany border during the offensi...

Sadler's Wells was the venue for Carlos Acosta's Carmen Ballet production from his Dance School, Acosta Danza. Indeed, Carlos Acosta is a highly revered figure in the industry, with a desire for entertaining audiences with classical and contemporary dance.Back In 2016, Carlos Acosta, produced a one-act version of Carmen for the Royal Ballet and dec...

A small cottage industry of Paris comedy shows in English helps tourists laugh at themselves and Parisians both. How archaic to think of women traveling to Paris getting a new bouffant hairdo and Chanel suit in order to fit in.Long gone are the days when an American in Paris had to fret that their travel trousseau, accent or sneakers would elicit s...