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Go jump in the Lac and forget Petipa

Go jump in the Lac and forget Petipa

Robert Tanitch reviews Lac at London Coliseum There have been so many interpretations of Swan Lake. As the present title suggests, Lac is not for purists. Jean-Christophe Maillot, artistic director of ...

Greed is good

Robert Tanitch reviews A Small Family Business at National Theatre, London SW1 Alan Ayckbourn’s modern morality play, which satirized the materialism of Thatcher’s Britain, returns to the Olivie ...
Three sisters want to go to London

Three sisters want to go to London

Robert Tanitch reviews Three Sisters at Southwark Playhouse, London SE Anton Chekhov’s play one of the great plays of the 20th century, premiered in Moscow in 1901. It is a bitter tirade against the p ...
Another fantasy series with Divergent

Another fantasy series with Divergent

In the beginning there was Harry Potter, a coming-of-age fantasy about finding one’s identity along a path filled with angels and demons.  Then came the atmospheric melodrama Twilight, with a strong f ...