Jermyn Street theatre, London Funny things happen on the way to Hades in this version of Aristophanes' civic-minded comedy about the function of artIt is disconcerting to find the creator has got in ahead of the critic. In his indispensable book, Finishing the Hat, Stephen Sondheim says of this musical adaptation of a comedy by Aristophanes, originally staged in a Yale swimming pool in 1974, that it suffered from inf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM on March 20, 2017