Watch out for . . .

GREGG HENRY, who plays Julius Caesar in director Oskar Eustis’s scorching production of Shakespeare’s play about assassination and civil unrest which is running in the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park as part of the Public Theater’s long-established free Shakespeare In The Park programme. The show has attracted controversy because Caesar has a blond bouffant, wears a red kipper tie and

resembles that idiot in the White House. Lordy, lordy, it’s a play by William Shakespeare! Whose work has been re-interpret hundreds of times to reflect what’s going on in the world Or as Eustis put it, ‘to hold a mirror up to nature’. Mission accomplished, superbly.

LONDON divas Elaine Paige (far right) and Frances Ruffelle (right), who were both at the Tony Awards and kicked up their heels at the official after-party at the Plaza Hotel. I must have missed her, but I hear Ms Paige went on to the ritzy after-after party at the Carlyle Hotel, hosted by New York man about town Rick Miramontez. It was enormous fun and I enjoyed observing all the pushing and shoving to get in. Cops were called. If only the would-be revellers had realised there was a secret entrance around the corner! The real fun was in the penthouse suite, where the likes of Bette Midler and Glenn Close were in their element. I got up there later, and have a vague recollection of leaving at around 6am . . .