Where is Jack the Ripper?
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel at London Coliseum. Jack the Ripper was active in and around the slums of Whitechapel in 1888. He got his nickname because of the ...
THEATRE REVIEWS
Do you know what a phlebotomist does?
Robert Tanitch reviews The Phlebotomist at Hampstead Theatre, London NW3 Phlebotomy is the art of drawing blood. A phlebotomist tests blood. Ella Road’s debut play premiered at Hampstead’s Downstairs ...
Northern Ballet celebrates the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth with a new and arresting ballet
Robert Tanitch reviews Victoria at Sadler’s Wells, London EC1 The first play to be written about Victoria, Laurence Housman’s Victoria Regina in 1934, was not publicly performed until 1937 because the ...
Should sex offenders be shown any sympathy? Are paedophiles beyond forgiveness?
Robert Tanitch reviews Downstate at National Theatre/Dorfman, London. Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago is one of the great theatre companies in America. They have been to London before and they ...