Greedy Matron Frolics, Cavalier Swaggers, Mozart: London Stage

Business Week Saturday 4th February, 2012

Topping the list of cheer-uppers in London is a new National Theatre production of "She Stoops to Conquer," Oliver Goldsmith’s mistaken-identity romp of 1773. Sophie Thompson, playing a rapacious over-protective mother, adds another dazzler to her gallery of comic creations. (She garnered great notices last year playing two wildly different r...

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