ALADDIN, CAST, DONCASTER, NOV 26th 2021
Riding along on bouncy waves of genuine fun and sparkle, Doncaster’s Aladdin slaps perpetual smiles on faces young and old and instantly has everyone shouting their participatory heads off with ...
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The RSC’s Don Quixote is good, popular, festive, pantomime fun
Robert Tanitch reviews RSC’s Don Quixote at Garrick Theatre, London WC2 Everybody is familiar with the iconic image of Don Quixote riding a horse in his rusty armour and wearing a barber’s basin for a ...
Auden and Isherwood’s satire on Nazism worried the British censor in 1935
Robert Tanitch reviews The Dog Beneath the Skin at Jermyn Street, London SW1. W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood were intermittent lovers in the 1930’s. They published The Dog Beneath the Skin in 1 ...
The best pantomime I have ever seen
Robert Tanitch reviews Dick Whittington at London Palladium, W1 The first recorded performance of a Dick Whittington pantomime was at Covent Garden in 1814. The great Grimaldi played the Dame. 200 yea ...