The Lady in the Van
Joyce Glasser reviews The Lady in the Van As we watch Nicholas Hytner’s (History Boys, The Madness of George III) film The Lady in the Van, with its screenplay from 81-year-old Alan Bennett and its 80 ...
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Exuding oodles of feel-bad factor, the play packs a hefty punch!
Eileen Caiger Gray reviews LORD O F THE FLIES at SHEFFIELD LYCEUM Onstage sits the smoking, broken, bulky fuselage of a plane, dropped into a jungle of splintered trees. A debris of plane parts, suitc ...
Harley Granville Barker’s Waste is a scathing analysis of political compromise
Robert Tanitch reviews Waste at National Theatre/Lyttelton. Harley Granville Barker’s political drama, originally written in 1907 when he was barely 30 and banned by The Lord Chamberlain, was no ...
Go to ENO for the singing rather than the production
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s The Force of Destiny at London Coliseum One of the reasons Verdi’s opera of love, war, revenge and death, is not staged that often is that the libretto is such a rambling ...