Vivat, Regina!
Robert Tanitch reviews The Audience at Apollo Theatre, London W1 The first actor to play Queen Elizabeth II on stage was Prunella Scales in Alan Bennett’s A Question of Attribution at the National The ...
LIFESTYLE
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 ...
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 ...