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Exhibition Review: Searching for Shakespeare at the National Portrait Gallery
Do you want to meet the Bard? This is the closest you are ever going to get.
Read More »Theater Review: Doctor Faustus and The Devil Is An Ass
Provided you don't give yourself a devil of a headache by trying to make sense of the plot, Ben Jonson's long-ignored piece is good fun.
Read More »Theater Review: Christmas is Miles Away
This play will have a place as an early attempt to tell of the effects of the first Gulf War on its warriors.
Read More »Theater Review: The Little Dressmaker
Olga Ivanovna is trapped in a small town. She leaps around, collecting every visiting "star", every scrap of local talent.
Read More »Green Dogs in San Francisco and Green Buses in London
A gift to cartoonists, but it also makes perfect sense - time to harness "canine power".
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 45 (Women Bloggers)
A granny with a vibrator, a 13-year-old with a cause, and creating a whale.
Read More »Shakespeare’s Face, A Dead Swan, and Dramatic Criticism
Who says the world of arts criticism and study is dry and serious?
Read More »A Quarter of a Million Feminist Bloggers …
The ninth edition of the Carnival of Feminists led me to conduct a "count".
Read More »No Excuses: British Ministers Have to Ditch Their Jaguars
The hybrid-fuel option now being offered is cheaper and greener. And the defense of "security" doesn't stand up.
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