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Bohemian beauty

Bohemian beauty

Eileen Caiger Gray reviews LA BOHEME English Touring Opera Sheffield Lyceum As ‘bohemian’ poet Rodolfo progresses from shy, starry-eyed romantic into distraught, grief-stricken lover, David Butt Phili ...
A play immortalized by an assassination

A play immortalized by an assassination

Robert Tanitch reviews Our American Cousin at Finborough Theatre London NW10 OUR AMERICAN COUSIN was the play President Abraham Lincoln was watching at the Ford Theatre in Washington D C on 14 April 1 ...
One of the greatest war films ever made

One of the greatest war films ever made

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs WOODEN CROSSES (Eureka).Raymond Bernard’s adaptation of Roland Dorgeles’s book, Les Croix de Bois, is a brilliantly convincing recreation of World War 1 in the o ...
A woman’s college? Maddest folly going!!

A woman’s college? Maddest folly going!!

Robert Tanitch reviews Princess Ida at Finborough Theatre, London SW10 If you want to know why Arthur Sullivan, recently knighted, should want to end one of the most successful musical partnerships yo ...