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...around London this season; by the time its run ends in late January, it will have been seen by as many as 300,000 people in the U.K. "Bourne is a popular dance phenomenon on a scale not seen since Jerome Robbins in 1950s America," says Debra Craine, dance critic of the London Times. For those who can't get enough of Bourne, the good news is that the choreographer is in the middle of a creative surge. After a well-reviewed experimental four-week run last year, Play Without Words opens at London's National Theatre this week...
...West End for a record-breaking 21-week run. Broadway followed, as did international tours and more than 25 major awards. Next came Cinderella, set in the London Blitz, and Car Man, a film noir treatment of Bizet's classic. Both had major West End runs. But the critics were not entirely impressed; many dismissed Bourne as a showman rather than a dance man, a label that has stuck. The Mail on Sunday has called him "both the best and the worst thing to have happened to British dance in the past 20 years." Rupert Christiansen, a critic...
...Milestone on his death noted [Nov. 24]. Eighteen years ago, some early segments of the show were dug out of storage and released. They originally aired from 1952 to 1957, when The Honeymooners was a regular segment on Jackie Gleason's hour-long TV variety show. Our critic described these episodes in a May 13, 1985, report...
...Crimson Arts Critic Mildred M. Yuan can be reached at yuan@fas.harvard.edu...
...Crimson Arts Critic Alexandra D. Hoffer can be reached at hoffer@fas.harvard.edu...