Author Archives: Mark

A letter from J. Holden – The power of music

A letter from J. Holden – The power of music

I am an unmarried woman and although I have had an interesting and adventurous life I have often been very lonely. We live in a world of couples so I have faced social exclusion but in the last few ye ...
How do you like your Shakespeare?

How do you like your Shakespeare?

Robert Tanitch reviews Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe, London SE1 One of the major Shakespearian events in the 20th century was Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud famously alternated Romeo and ...
Sir Nicholas Hytner

Sir Nicholas Hytner

Robert Tanitch reviews a major new theatre book Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre by Nicholas Hytner (Jonathan Cape £20). Nicholas Hytner is about to launch a new 900-seater, T ...