BWW Review: BLOODY DIFFICULT WOMEN, Riverside Studios
Let’s rewind to 2016. The fires of Brexit are being stoked left and right and the discourse is rife everywhere, the news swarm with opinions and facts. Theresa May is about to go from Home Secretary to Prime Minister. Kenneth Clarke is being interviewed by Sky and he’s passing judgement on the candidates for the job. He smirks through his opinion of May and ends it with “Theresa’s a bloody difficult woman, but you and I [Michael Rifkind, whom he was talking to] worked for Margaret Thatcher”. This is the anecdote that titles Tim Walker’s new play about the sparring between May and Gina Miller, who took the government to court over their authority to trigger Article 50 without any approval from Parliament after the Brexit referendum.
Pritzker Military Museum & Library Presents 'Hunting Charlie' Exhibit, Today
CHICAGO, Sept 23, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The Pritzker Military Museum & Library's exhibit, Hunting Charlie: Finding the Enemy in the Vietnam War, explores the United States' enemy during the Vietnam conflict through rarely seen original art pieces. The exhibit displays a point-and-counterpoint perspective by pairing North Vietnamese propaganda art created from 1952 to 1973 with photos, Bill Mauldin political cartoons and reflections from United States combat veterans. The exhibit opens September 29, 2016 with a reception from 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Pritzker Military Museum & Library Presents 'Hunting Charlie' Exhibit, 9/29
CHICAGO, Sept 23, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The Pritzker Military Museum & Library's exhibit, Hunting Charlie: Finding the Enemy in the Vietnam War, explores the United States' enemy during the Vietnam conflict through rarely seen original art pieces. The exhibit displays a point-and-counterpoint perspective by pairing North Vietnamese propaganda art created from 1952 to 1973 with photos, Bill Mauldin political cartoons and reflections from United States combat veterans. The exhibit opens September 29, 2016 with a reception from 4:30-7:30 p.m.
New Exhibit Honors U.S. Army Combat Photographers
Original photographs and motion pictures by the men of Department of the Army Special Photographic Office (DASPO) are at the center of a new exhibit by the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on the Vietnam War, to be unveiled Thursday at a free public reception. The event will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the Museum & Library and will be immediately followed by a live recording of 'Citizen Soldier,' featuring a discussion by DASPO veterans of the vital role played by these elite special operations teams during the war.
Portraits from Snowdon Archive to Be Displayed at National Portrait Gallery, 9/26
An important display of portraits by Snowdon from the 1950s to the 1990s has opened at the National Portrait Gallery, London, it was announced today, Friday 26 September, 2014.
The display includes portraits from his recently announced gift, one of the largest in its history, of 130 original prints to the gallery, of some of his most iconic photographs. Highlights include from 1978 actor Terence Stamp dramatically clothed up to his neck in a cape and Dame Maggie Smith photographed with a cigarette and script in hand rehearsing the title role in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler for Ingmar Bergman in 1970.
Director Bobby Garcia Attached to West End's Forthcoming 'Sacrifice'
Coinciding with the opening night of the Expo 2010 Shanghai, the Sacrifice partners (producers Toby Simkin, William Ong and authors Kenneth Clarke, Richard Daniels and Mark Troop) are pleased to announce the attachment of internationally renowned stage director, Bobby Garcia to direct the musical of Sacrifice. In addition to the feature film version, the musical is in development now to open in London's West End after an Asian workshop production.