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Book Review
Brian Vickers aims to ‘restore’ Kyd to greatness — but claiming too much on too little evidence does the playwright no favors
Emma Smith
The Playbook is a dramatic tale, full of overreaching ambition, dastardly plots, embattled heroes and last-minute reversals
Philip Womack
Adapting Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s play in Salzburg
Robert Carsen
The songs explode. The passion overwhelms. It’s opulent when it needs to be, fun when it needs to be, and intoxicating
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
Theater
The original cultural punch of the 1970s production has been replaced with gaudy, empty commercialism