Weather Afternoon: 12°c Light showers Tonight: 8°c Light showers

News

HEADLINES:
RSS

Busby Berkeley

Related topics: 

Latest articles

Only the net could catch a Tongan nasal flautist

07.09.09
Among the many curious delights of the British Library's extraordinary audio archive of world and traditional music is a haunting field recording of an Australian aborigine crying for a dead companion... more

Hello Dolly! makes a virtue of its limits

11.08.09
Hello Dolly! is wholesome, feelgood entertainment. Cynics and firebrands should look elsewhere for their fun.... more

La Cage aux Folles is louche and touching

12.05.09
Roger Allam and Philip Quast, taking over the leads from Graham Norton and Steven Pacey, bring tremendous verve to La Cage aux Folles.... more

Pink doesn't quite get 02 Arena party started

05.05.09
Pink's 02 gig was an uneven evening and not merely because this tattooed ball of energy is the dictionary definition of “in your face”.... more

After a dramatic 2008 one thing is for sure: next year won't be dull

31.12.08
We’ve seen it all — money meltdown, Boris, Obama, a return to austerity. But the biggest lesson of the past year is that nothing is inevitable... more

Aaya feels more Paris than London

06.10.08
The word aaya also means 'beautiful flower' in Japanese and happens to be the name of the restaurant where Mark Bolland dined.... more

Farce with flounce

10.01.08
Even in our age of civil partnerships, Jerry Herman's farcical musical comedy La Cage aux Folles wrestles alluringly with a dilemma that could induce shudders of gay anxiety today.... more

More liberated women needed in a not so Bad Girls

14.09.07
Bad Girls needs a touch more lesbian liberation. Despite a criminology professor's plaudits in the programme it offers no indictment of our primitive penal policy for women, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Welcome to the Pleasure Dome

29.08.07
With the Rolling Stones and Prince, the O2 has become London's most exciting new venue. Find out what's coming up at the former Dome here.... more

Grease is under-sexed, under-done and under par

09.08.07
The craze for turning the public into a nation of casting directors has not worked with Grease. Is it not high time producers found real stars for musicals again, asks Nicholas de Jongh.... more

What an experience... a night with bold Beyoncé

04.06.07
If anyone had the temerity to doubt Beyoncé's star quality and her place in the diva pantheon, they would doubt no more after her Wembley show, says John Aizlewood.... more

Burlesque show saves best until last

04.12.06
A family-friendly merger of burlesque and water ballet at the art-deco swimming house at Queensway's Porchester Centre was deeply silly but delightful and glorious at the same time.... more

Zen, zing and trickery

10.11.06
Moses Pendleton's new show Lunar Sea draws on ideas of the moon, stars, planets and galaxies and pulls out all the stops on visual gee-wizzery.... more

Voyeurism on parade

06.11.06
Dance director Busby Berkeley was known for his innovative use of the camera as "roving eye". For roving eye read "peeping Tom", a fact Yippeee!!! has grasped with characteristic glee.... more

More related topics: Busby Berkeley and

NewsSportShowbiz

Latest pictures



Don't Miss

Steamy scenes for Purnell in Turkish bath

Scheming over the future of the Labour Party continues even in the most unlikely places

All stories

Promotions

Environmental initiatives

Find out how you can help to meet the challenges of climate change in London.


The Open University

Every year The Open University helps thousands of professionals progress in their careers.


Win the Best Seats

In London theatre when you vote for your favourite celebrity spec wearer.


Breast Cancer Care

Donate £1 and leave a message of support for a loved one in the Swarovski Garden of Wishes.


Win an iPodTouch

With Courvoisier when you share your thoughts on this week's cocktail.