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Robert Tanitch review Matchbox Theatre at Hampstead Theatre, London NW3 Michael Frayn is famous as a playwright and as a novelist. He has written one of the great farces of the 20th century: Noises Of ...

Robert Tanitch reviews A Mad World My Masters at Barbican Theatre, London EC2 When Thomas Middleton’s comedy premiered in 1605 it was acted by children. The mind boggles. Were they as crude as the act ...

Robert Tanitch reviews The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare’s Globe, London Shylock was initially a comic character. I doubt very much if anybody would dare play him for comedy today. Jew-baiting was ...

Robert Tanitch reviews Bugsy Malone at Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London W6. The Lyric Theatre building in Hammersmith is transformed completely, following a £20 million redevelopment. You will be pl ...