Tag Archives: The Lyttleton Theatre

This ghost film from Disney’s theme park attraction should be more aspirational, and a lot funnier.

Joyce Glasser reviews The Haunted Mansion (August 11, 2023) Cert 12A, 123 mins. Call it hard times, but 2023 has seen product placement in major cinema releases elevated to unabashed merchandising wit ...

andrew 512 views 0 likes Aug 17, 2023

Robert Tanitch reviews Jack Thorne’s The Motive and the Cue at National Theatre/Lyttleton Theatre, London.

Sam Mendes commissioned Jack Thorne to write a play about John Gielgud directing Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway in 1964. Thorne took his inspiration from two books by actors who had been in the ...

andrew 3044 views 0 likes May 17, 2023

Robert Tanitch reviews Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky at National Theatre/Lyttelton Theatre.

I saw Pearl Cleage’s American drama in America at the Oregon Festival and looked forward to seeing it again when it came to the UK. I have had to wait 25 years. I am amazed it hasn’t been staged ...

andrew 764 views 0 likes Oct 14, 2022