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Birmingham Royal Ballet’s traditional Giselle delights

Robert Tanitch reviews Giselle at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London EC1 Giselle, the most famous and enduring of all ballets of the Romantic era, is to dancers what Hamlet is to actors; and it boasts one ...

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Ken Loach’s timely, powerful companion piece to I, Daniel Blake shouldn’t be missed

Joyce Glasser reviews Sorry I Missed You (November 1, 2019), Cert. 15, 101 min. Thirty-three years after being forced to retire from Oxford at 65, scientist John Goodenough, who went to work at the Un ...

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Springsteen is still The Boss, but his directorial debut is less persuasive than the music

Joyce Glasser reviews Western Stars (October 28, 2019), Cert. PG, 82 min. Bruce Springsteen’s first studio album in five years is probably good enough for him to remain The Boss, despite this eponymou ...

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We that are true lovers run into strange capers. You can say that again

Robert Tanitch reviews RSC’s As You Like It at Barbican Theatre, London EC2 The RSC regularly bring their productions to the Barbican from October to January which is great but they do not necessarily ...

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