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Jun 19, 2024 · Sam and Bella Spewack’s Kiss Me, Kate takes metatheatre both capriciously and seriously.
Jun 19, 2024 · Porter is on top form, complemented brilliantly by Sam and Bella Spewack’s book which adopts Shakespeare’s ‘play-within-a-play’ trick, taking its subterfuge to new heights. Both ‘Taming of the Shrew’ and ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ have gathered accusations of misogyny over time, but if you look deeper, the bard and the songsmith are, in ...
Jun 19, 2024 · What results is a near-farcical, slapstick comedy of misunderstanding, misadventure and misgivings. Sam & Bella Spewack’s book deftly layers the multitude of sub-plots and counter plots into a cohesive whole. It is wonderfully funny but not at the expense of an emotional heart.
Jun 19, 2024 · Book: Sam and Bella Spewack. Director: Bartlett Sher. Cole Porter’s 1948 Broadway musical Kiss Me, Kate, the first-ever recipient of a Tony Award for Best Musical, was his first attempt at the...
Jun 20, 2024 · But instead they’re playing much safer by returning this year to another musical from Broadway’s golden age: Cole Porter’s only other easily revival-worthy stage musical, Kiss Me, Kate (book by Sam and Bella Spewack), which originally premiered on Broadway in 1948.
Jun 20, 2024 · Kiss Me, Kate is playing a limited Summer season at the Barbican Theatre to 14 September 2024. Read reviews from the Times, Guardian and more, with further reviews to be added. Book tickets to Kiss Me, Kate at the Barbican Theatre London.
Jun 23, 2024 · The company have returned to the Porter canon for this summer’s blockbuster production – a revival of the tunesmith’s 1948 Broadway musical Kiss Me, Kate, written with husband-and-wife team Sam and Bella Spewack.
