LENNON: A WEEK IN THE LIFE
Mention the names of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and Porridge and The Likely Lads spring instantly to mind, these being the classic comedies for which the writers are best known and most widely re ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos on line
Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, which premiered in Stratford in 1912 and then was revised and performed in Vienna in 1916, is an opera-within-an-opera. The libretto is by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal. T ...
BOOKS on Theatre, Film, Dance and Broadway
Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 3 (2020) TOM STOPPARD A Life by Hermione Lee (Faber). Anybody who has enjoyed Stoppard’s plays will want to read Hermione Lee’s lengthy and astute biography. Ther ...
American Beauty writer Alan Ball takes us back to 1973, when we all had an Uncle Frank.
Uncle Frank (95 mins) Streaming on Amazon Prime Video from 25 November One of my favourite relatives growing up was Uncle Frank, a soft-spoken, shy man who never married, seldom attended large family ...