http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-10400-busby-berkeley/topic-rss.do Busby Berkeley RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23740892-only-the-net-could-catch-a-tongan-nasal-flautist.do 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 2009-09-07T09:37:45Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23730673-hello-dolly-makes-a-virtue-of-its-limits.do Hello Dolly! is wholesome, feelgood entertainment. Cynics and firebrands should look elsewhere for their fun. 2009-08-10T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23689555-la-cage-aux-folles-is-louche-and-touching.do Roger Allam and Philip Quast, taking over the leads from Graham Norton and Steven Pacey, bring tremendous verve to La Cage aux Folles. 2009-05-11T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23685430-pink-doesnt-quite-get-02-arena-party-started.do 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”. 2009-05-04T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23609882-after-a-dramatic-2008-one-thing-is-for-sure-next-year-wont-be-dull.do 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 2008-12-31T09:14:54Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/review-23563477-aaya-feels-more-paris-than-london.do The word aaya also means 'beautiful flower' in Japanese and happens to be the name of the restaurant where Mark Bolland dined. 2008-10-05T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23431731-farce-with-flounce.do 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. 2008-01-10T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23412151-more-liberated-women-needed-in-a-not-so-bad-girls.do 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. 2007-09-13T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23410157-welcome-to-the-pleasure-dome.do 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. 2007-08-29T09:09:01Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23407677-grease-is-under-sexed-under-done-and-under-par.do 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. 2007-08-08T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23399248-what-an-experience-a-night-with-bold-beyonc.do 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. 2007-06-03T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23376923-burlesque-show-saves-best-until-last.do 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. 2006-12-04T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23373944-zen-zing-and-trickery.do 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. 2006-11-10T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23373461-voyeurism-on-parade.do 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. 2006-11-06T00:00:00Z