A wallow in memory lane
Who remembers Flanders and Swann? I had forgotten all about them until I heard Bryn Terfel sing one of their most famous songs, The Gas Man Cometh on the television the other morning. I discovered tha ...
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A woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery
Robert Tanitch reviews Venus in Fur at Theatre Royal Haymarket, London SW1 The first thing you see when you enter the auditorium is a drop-curtain which features Titian’s Venus with a Mirror. The repr ...
Oscar Wilde offers melodrama and epigrams
Robert Tanitch reviews A Woman of No Importance at Vaudeville Theatre, London WC2 Dominic Dromgoole has formed a new theatre company, Classic Spring, and his first season is devoted entirely to the pl ...
The Crown feels like a superior and patriotic soap opera aimed at the Downton Abbey audience
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs The Crown (Sony). Hugely ambitious and costing £100 million, the series feels like a superior and patriotic soap opera aimed at the Downton Abbey audience. The s ...