Kathy Kirby: Icon continues at the White Bear Theatre, London until 8 November. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A full house for a Sunday matinee – even if it takes just under 50 derrieres on seats for the White Bear to reach capacity – showed that for many, Kathy Kirby is […]
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New play about Kathy Kirby premieres at the White Bear Theatre
The life, loves and turbulent times of 1960s singer Kathy Kirby provide the inspiration for Tom O’Brien’s (Money From America, Cricklewood Cowboys and Johnjo) new play Kathy Kirby: Icon which premieres at London’s White Bear Theatre next month. One of the best known British singers of the 1960s, Kirby was most famous for her cover version of Secret […]
Wartime Women: A Khaki Cabaret – Fiona-Jane Weston – St James Studio
Wartime Women: A Khaki Cabaret was performed by Fiona-Jane Weston at St James Studio, London. Now for something completely different – a cabaret about the role women played in war, from Queen Elizabeth I’s speech to the troops at Tilbury in 1588 to Hannah Snell, who disguised herself as a man and joined the Marines in 1747 (and […]
