Howls and Wonder: Shakespeare on Love

New York Times: "EVEN more than is usually the case, the West End is knee-deep in American musicals this winter. An enterprising visitor could experience a half-century of Broadway history in a week’s theatergoing. Vintage favorites include “Fiddler on the Roof” and “The Sound of Music,” “Cabaret” and “Chicago,” but the current scene is hardly slighted. “Wicked” is every bit as triumphant in London as it is in New York. “Avenue Q” is hanging in there. “Hairspray” just opened to smashing reviews, and even “Rent,” hardly the blistering hit in London it was on Broadway in its original staging, has returned in a “remixed” version. Hungry for more, it seems, the British have produced their very own American musical in “Dirty Dancing,” a popular stage version of the hit movie from the 1980s."