LENNON: A WEEK IN THE LIFE
Mention the names of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and Porridge and The Likely Lads spring instantly to mind, these being the classic comedies for which the writers are best known and most widely re ...
LIFESTYLE
Robert Tanitch reviews Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos on line
Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, which premiered in Stratford in 1912 and then was revised and performed in Vienna in 1916, is an opera-within-an-opera. The libretto is by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal. T ...
Paula’s Wines of the Week – 7th December 2020
How to choose wines for Christmas Day If you want wines to please everybody, that will also match just about any Christmas Day food or snack then you’ll need to get in at least three bottles of ...
BOOKS on Theatre, Film, Dance and Broadway
Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 3 (2020) TOM STOPPARD A Life by Hermione Lee (Faber). Anybody who has enjoyed Stoppard’s plays will want to read Hermione Lee’s lengthy and astute biography. Ther ...