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When Drood was first staged in 1985, Rivera probably wouldn’t have been considered for the role, and you can read that shift as commentary on the gradual opening-up of Broadway casting. But it’s just as surely about Rivera herself, whose singing, dancing—still exceptional despite age and a mid-career car accident that shattered her leg—and onstage charisma long ago busted through any such pigeonholes. The show is a high-concept musical based on Charles Dickens’s unfinished final novel, a murder mystery in which the audience chooses the ending. (Oddly, she didn’t see it in its first incarnation: “I was performing in Jerry’s Girls,” on the same schedule, she explains.) We’d like to suggest that the producers broaden the menu a little: Since it’s Chita, how about a version in which the old broad gets to dance a little? … [Read more...] about Chita Rivera Slings Opium in a New

Skylight is set a year after that death. It is also, significantly, about a year after Thatcher’s departure from 10 Downing Street. Though the Iron Lady is never named, Hare, abetted by Bob Crowley’s terrific scenic design, wastes no time letting us see the wreckage she left behind: Kyra now lives in a grimy, frigid apartment in a working-class housing block in northwest London. (A stage direction tells us it “seems more like Russia than England.”) It is here that Tom looks her up after three years without contact, hoping to resume their affair, this time in the open. But his plan is complicated, if not completely blocked, by differences in outlook that, once latent, are now all too obvious. While his chauffeur waits in the Mercedes downstairs, Tom, who lives in leafy Wimbledon, sniffs disapprovingly about the flat — literally, like a hound — no doubt noticing, as we do, its archeological wallpaper and air of enforced deprivation. He is more than … [Read more...] about Theater Review: An Illuminating

She also opened up to The Guardian about the pressures women feel to remain youthful and said: "It's crazy. You have to be much better than your male colleagues. You still have to be a good wife and mother. And now you also have to be skinny, and you have to look 20 when you're 40.  … [Read more...] about Salma Hayek, 54, makes surprising confession about her age

Early reports suggested that Ralph Fiennes would be taking on the role of the formidable headmistress, in line with the musical's long-running tradition of having a man play the role in drag. However, according to The Daily Mail, the filmmakers have made the decision to digress from the stage production in this aspect. … [Read more...] about Emma Thompson and Lashana Lynch to star in Netflix’s Matilda the Musical adaptation

It’s not known when Zara is due to give birth, but there’s a chance that coronavirus restrictions could still be in place in the UK. It’s highly likely that the baby’s first visitors will be Zara’s closest family members who also live at Gatcombe. … [Read more...] about Mike Tindall shares hilarious photo from homeschooling attempts