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Robert Tanitch reviews The Dresser at Richmond Theatre, Surrey

Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser, one of the best plays about life backstage, is a minor 20th century classic. It premiered in 1980 with Freddie Jones as an old pro and Tom Courtenay as his dresser. It wa ...

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Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

Based on a true story, the hit musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie hits Bristol on a wet and miserable Tuesday evening in October. But by the time the theatre empties there’s nothing mis ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Love and Other Acts of Violence at Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London

The Donmar Warehouse, revamped, opens with a new play they commissioned by Cordelia Lynn about Polish history and hostility towards Jews and shows how inherited guilt is passed from generation to gene ...

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Cheltenham Literary Festival 2021 and a true rock legend comes to town!

My mind travels back to 1979, that was the first time I ever saw this rock legend live in the flesh. It was as a callow 16 year old youth that I joined a queue outside the Virgin Records store in Shef ...

andrew 251 views 0 likes Oct 18, 2021