It’s Panto time again!
And with it you can feel the huge outpouring of relief at panto’s return to stages across the country this year following the fallow 2020 season when theatres were shuttered because of coronavirus. A ...
THEATRE REVIEWS
SHE LOVES ME SHEFFIELD CRUCIBLE December 16th 2021
The big Christmas musical at The Crucible this year is She Loves Me. The show’s title song was a big hit for Jack Jones in 1964, but it’s likely this is the only one of the show’s nu ...
Robert Tanitch reviews Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London.
The Nutcracker! has long been a Christmas favourite, the ideal treat for little girls. It was not always so. The premiere in 1892 was badly received by the critics who disapproved of Tchaikovsky wasti ...
Robert Tanitch reviews Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus at Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre, London
Alan Bennett’s comedy, which premiered in 1973 with Alec Guinness in the lead role, is described as “a filthy farce for a less enlightened age” and it is quite unlike anything else he has written. The ...