Archive for July 2009

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

July 29, 2009

Roald Dahl’s classic tale of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory performed by Faust International Youth Theatre promises to be a delicious treat. Join Charlie Bucket and the four spoilt brats who tour the factory meeting a variety of grim ends. This Richard George-adaptation is filled with music, song and dance and features more than 60 children [...]

A T. Rex Named Sue

July 26, 2009

Jurassic Park must have been every natural history museum’s dream, creating a huge market for all things ‘dinosaur’. The traveling exhibition ‘A T. Rex Named Sue’ opens at Boston’s Museum of Science before embarking on an 18-city tour of the US. It features an up-close look at a replica of T Rex Sue, the largest [...]

Perseus

July 8, 2009

Benvenuto Cellini’s superb bronze statue of Perseus has always been the most important piece of sculpture to be sheltered in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Piazza Signoria. Sadly, he has been hidden away in the depths of the Uffizi gallery undergoing extensive restoration for three and a half years. Now, the life-sized statue, a mannerist [...]

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