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Robert Tanitch reviews Theresa Rebeck’s Mad House at Ambassadors Theatre, London

Theresa Rebeck’s old-fashioned American melodrama is described as a blistering dark comedy about death and madness. This dysfunctional family saga is set in rural Pennsylvania and was specifically wri ...

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Baz Luhrmann gets caught in a trap in his glitzy, ambitious but shallow biopic.

Joyce Glasser reviews Elvis (June 24, 2022) Cert 12A, 160 mins. After the Freddie Mercury biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody and the Elton John biopic, Rocketman, comes Elvis, Baz Luhrmann’s (The Great Gatsby, ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Marivaux’s The False Servant at Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Surrey

The plays by the great French writer Marivaux, famed for their wit and subtle psychological insights, deserve to be revived more often. The marivaudage (once, but no longer, a term of abuse) needs the ...

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A tantalising premise is never fulfilled in Sophie Hyde’s subtly ageist and stagey film, despite Emma Thompson’s courageous efforts.

Joyce Glasser reviews Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (June 17, 2022) Cert 15, 98 mins. Since Michael Haneke’s Amour won its Academy Award in 2012, the number of films about older people starring older a ...

andrew 459 views 0 likes Jun 22, 2022