Scene 1 Puck If we shadows have offended . . . Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends. Stage blacks out and the lights…
The Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall then (left) and now (right) DURING Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary spare a thought for a London street normally associated with exclusive clubs rather than high culture.…
To watch a play in the same space – the hall of Gray’s Inn – where it was first staged in 1566, and which has hardly ever been produced since,…
55 Pall Mall now . . . and then I HAVE occasionally wondered why 52 Pall Mall looks so different to its neighbours. The answer is…
Taking The Bard for Granted (reprinted, courtesy of @LondonHistorian) by Victor Keegan In Staunton, Virginia there is a loving re-construction of the Blackfriars Theatre which after 1608 was the main…
Archaeologists working last week Walbrook (on right under excavations) Of all London’s lost rivers the Walbrook is the lostest. Also, the most fascinating. It flowed – and in some…
Edit AMONG the nooks and crannies of the City this has to be a favourite, not least because I worked for several years in the same street – London Wall…