The paso doble is the high point
Robert Tanitch reviews Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom at Piccadilly Theatre, London W1. Strictly Ballroom was first a stage play lasting 30 minutes; and then it was a play lasting 50 minutes before ...
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This production may not be the most compelling, but it goes down well enough
Eileen Caiger Gray reviews Sunset Boulevard at Sheffield Lyceum (April 23rd 2018) Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical version of Sunset Boulevard opened in 1993, based on the magnificent 1950 Billy Wi ...
Festering grief destroys lives and marriage
Robert Tanitch reviews Mayfly at Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Surrey Mayflies hatch in the morning, mate in the afternoon, die at night. That’s it. It doesn’t seem much of a life. But it’s amazing w ...
Mozart, Ingmar Bergman, J. B. Priestley, Hedy Lamarr and a Japanese serial killer
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs The Magic Flute (BFI) Harmony, truth, friendship, enlightenment and redemption: what more could any self-respecting Freemason want? Ingmar Bergman, making a film ...