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Robert Tanitch reviews three dance pieces on line

STAND BY (Netherlands Dans Theater). The company’s 60th birthday celebration has to be on-line rather than on-stage because of the coronavirus crisis. Paul Lightfoot, artistic director, and Solo Leon, ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Royal Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty on line.

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY has a special place in Royal Ballet’s collective heart. It was this ballet, which re-opened the Royal Opera House in 1946 after World War II. Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann sta ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Shakespeare’s the Taming of the Shrew on line.

Whenever Shakespeare’s farce is performed it invariably gets a bad press and not just from feminists. Political correctness has kept the play off the stage in North America. What is your attitude towa ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Royal Opera House’s Faust on line

A doddery old man makes a bargain with Mephistopheles. He will give him his soul if he will give him back youth and the passionate pleasures that go with it. So, what’s new? The story has often been t ...

andrew 177 views 0 likes Jul 21, 2020