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...Shirley Valentine Duke of York’s Theatre, London The scent and sizzle of hot fat fills the room as Sheridan Smith fries an egg on stage in Shirley Valentine — a mundane moment made exotic and strange by...
...“I just knew of it as the place where Shirley Bassey was born. But I did some preliminary research, and I was hooked. It just felt right....
...Alec Russell asks for suggestions for what to read during the present crisis. I suggest Superwoman by Shirley Conran, first published in 1975....
...Russell Thomas’s Idomeneo starts well but flounders in the second act; he has gravitas and artistry, but not enough upper register for the part. The Freiburger Barockorchester plays up a storm....
...The good news is that the labelling system for green securities is improving: just this week FTSE and Russell announced new indices to enable investors to judge the environmental credentials of sovereign...
...Michael Russell, education minister under Ms Sturgeon’s predecessor Alex Salmond, returns to the cabinet in a new portfolio role overseeing preparations for Brexit....
...Shirley Rodrigues, London’s deputy mayor, says the city has reached a “tipping point” in terms of taking action....
...In the title role, Russell Thomas has gravitas and passion; Golda Schultz gives us a wonderfully sophisticated super-bitch as Vitellia; Christina Gansch’s Servilia is ingenuous and charming, Willard White...
...I also call into Malcolm Russell’s Retro Living round the corner....
...A panel discussion chaired by Alec Russell, editor of FT Weekend....
...Dennis Russell Davies kept a tight grip on Linz’s Bruckner Orchestra and held a fine cast well together....
...(Russell’s best work, Three Kings, had the same multidimensional generosity of imagination.)...
...Dame Stephanie Shirley Philanthropist, Shirley Foundation I was an IT entrepreneur and made a small fortune, which I’m now enjoying giving away....
...Russell’s drama plays ping-pong with a host of questions: what is education, who is it for, what does culture mean, and, above all, who is educating whom?...
...Russell can probably live with that....
...Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which included one of her stuffed old ladies and a Shirley Temple doll wearing a “Welcome The Rolling Stones” sweater....
...Russell Braun is convincing in the work’s many small roles, and the smaller roles are all well sung....
...The menus complement the show on stage (fried calamari for Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine, for instance). But clearly the programming is the central attraction. There have been duds, but not many....
...Additional reporting by Shirley Chen...
...She (a warm and witty performance from Catherine Russell) turns up to serve divorce papers; he (a roguish, twinkly Nigel Cooke) serves swordfish, champagne and seductive charm....
...In Willy Russell’s affecting play Shirley Valentine, the eponymous housewife swaps talking to a Liverpudlian wall for a rickety seaside table and tinkling bouzouki soundtrack, and finds herself transformed...
...Olympic gold medallist and three times America’s Cup winner Russell Coutts will skipper one of the boats....
...Charles Russell; 50; 14. Hamptons International; 52; 15. Navigant Consulting; 57; 16. The writer is FT.com’s yachting correspondent...
...That was not an option for Shirley Langdon, who was similarly surprised to learn that her home, Muniment House, had been pictured in a John Constable painting....
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