CALAMITY JANE – SHEFFIELD LYCEUM – JUNE 19th 2025
It was an incredible 72 years ago that Doris Day’s Calamity Jane first went whip-crack-away and the Deadwood stage started a-comin’ on over the plain. Set in 1870’s Dakota in non-pc ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews the UK touring production of Fiddler on the Roof at the Barbican Theatre, London.
Who would have thought the repression, harassment, eviction and exile of impoverished Jews in Tsarist Russia in 1905 could be turned into a successful Broadway musical? Yet Fiddler on the Roof, based ...
BOYS FROM THE BLACKSTUFF – Doncaster CAST – June 4th 2025
Blackstuff first hit our TV screens in a big way in 1980 as a BBC Play for Today. Five Bafta-winning episodes of Boys from the Blackstuff then screened in 1982, a seminal TV drama phenomenon, full of ...
Robert Tanitch reviews In Praise of Love at Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Surrey.
Terence Rattigan (1911-1977) enjoyed huge success from 1936 (the year of his smash-hit, French Without Tears) until 1956, the year of the arrival of John Osborne and Look Back in Anger and all the Ang ...