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Three hours of Bertolt Brecht can be boring

Three hours of Bertolt Brecht can be boring

Robert Tanitch reviews Mother Courage and Her Children at Southwark Playhouse, London SE1 Bertolt Brecht wrote his manifesto on warmongering and capitalism in 1938, shortly after the signing of the pa ...
Did John Jasper murder Edwin Drood?

Did John Jasper murder Edwin Drood?

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs The Mystery of Edwin Drood (BBC). Charles Dickens had completed only six out of the 12 instalments when he died in 1870, aged only 58, exhausted from his lecture ...
Three one-act ballets by Birmingham Royal Ballet

Three one-act ballets by Birmingham Royal Ballet

Robert Tanitch reviews Birmingham Royal Ballet’s triple bill at Sadler’s Wells, London EC1 Birmingham Royal Ballet’s enjoyable triple bill includes works by Ruth Brill, Michael Corder and David Bintle ...
A classic re-issued for its 30th Birthday

A classic re-issued for its 30th Birthday

Joyce Glasser reviews Predator (re-release, November 9, 2017) Cert 15, 102 min. If, like me, you wouldn’t miss a vintage Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, even on TV, you might be surprised to learn that h ...