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American mini-musical fails to do justice to The Little Match Girl

Robert Tanitch reviews Striking 12 at Union Theatre, London SE1 Striking 12, a mini-musical by Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda with Rachel Sheinkin, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little ...

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A hopeful and moving documentary combining a motorcycle journey and Holocaust stories

Joyce Glasser reviews Back to Berlin (November 23, 2018), Cert. 12A, 75 min. That the release of Back to Berlin coincide with the end of a series of remembrance ceremonies associated with the end WWI ...

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Burke and Hare are one of the most famous double acts

Robert Tanitch reviews Burke and Hare at Jermyn Street Theatre, London SW1 Everybody knows Burke and Hare robbed graves and sold them to Dr Knox, the famous anatomist, in Edinburgh in 1828 – exc ...

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The Yanks are overpaid, oversexed, overfed, overbearing and over here

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs Yanks (Eureka). Over a million American soldiers (earning three times more than the British Tommy) are in Britain preparing for the invasion of Europe. British w ...

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