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Robert Tanitch reviews Hamlet at Young Vic, London.

Hamlet at the Young Vic is of historic interest in that Cush Jumbo is the first woman of colour in the UK to play the Prince of Denmark. Great actors want to play Hamlet. For four centuries great acto ...

andrew 203 views 0 likes Oct 14, 2021

Jacques Audiard’s new film is entertaining, but gets lost in its amorphic ambition.

Joyce Glasser reviews Les Olympiades: Paris 13 (London Film Festival, 14 and 15 October at the Southbank Centre). 105 mins. After The Sisters Brothers, Audiard’s misguided adaptation of a terrific boo ...

andrew 233 views 0 likes Oct 13, 2021

Robert Tanitch reviews The Normal Heart at the National Theatre/Olivier Theatre

Larry Kramer’s largely autobiographical play, The Normal Heart, deals with the private and public tragedy of the AIDS crisis in New York in the early 1980s and documents Kramer’s efforts t ...

andrew 170 views 0 likes Oct 13, 2021

ENSEMBLE 360 at CAST, DONCASTER Sat Oct 9th 2021

Ample applause, foot-stomping and broad smiles of delight erupted as the music ended with a final, fiery flourish. There were sighs of relief, too, that pianist Tim hadn’t fallen off the end of ...

andrew 164 views 0 likes Oct 12, 2021