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The Lehman Trilogy ★★★★★

The Lehman Trilogy ★★★★★

Director Sam Mendes' electrifying family epic The Lehman Trilogy opens on a spare set of glass, steel and designer furniture. It’s so bright and sparklingly modern you almost need shades. Yet this pristine office scene, created on a revolving stage by set designer extraordinaire Es Devlin…

Dance Me ★★★★★

Dance Me ★★★★★

The concept of a dance show set to Leonard Cohen’s music was approved by the man himself when it was first conceived by then artistic director of Ballets Jazz Montréal, Louis Robitaille. The Canadian singer-songwriter requested the inclusion of more recent songs as well as the iconic…

Dinner with Groucho ★★★★

Dinner with Groucho ★★★★

Groucho Marx, the epitome of the fast-talking Jewish funny man, and TS Eliot, lionised as the preeminent modernist poet and never out of fashion, may seem unlikely lunch buddies. It’s well documented, though, that they became pen pals thanks to a fan letter the poet, known for his…