Garden flat
A green-fingered pensioner living in a block of ex-council flats in a city suburb has transformed his weed-filled front garden – into a spectacular riot of colour. Ray Foley, 79, started tidying ...
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Young love and old love
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs THE LAST FIVE YEARS (Ikon) is based on Jason Robert Brown’s small-scale, entirely sung-through musical, a two-hander, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2002 and ha ...
Is this version of Hardy’s classic just too far from the original?
Joyce Glasser reviews Far from the Madding Crowd (April 30, 2015) Cert. 12, 113 min. It is almost 50 years since John Schlesinger’s dark, romantic and faithful adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd ...
Michael Frayn’s latest comedy is a revue with 23 sketches
Robert Tanitch review Matchbox Theatre at Hampstead Theatre, London NW3 Michael Frayn is famous as a playwright and as a novelist. He has written one of the great farces of the 20th century: Noises Of ...