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Robert Tanitch reviews English National Ballet’s Raymonda at the London Coliseum

RAYMONDA, choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Alexander Glazunov, premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg in 1898, and is one of the great classic ballets. Yet outside of Russia, it ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Spring Awakening at Almeida Theatre, London

Frank Wedekind (1864-1918) wrote Spring Awakening during 1890/91 and it is one of the definitive statements on adolescence. He writes about the guilt and the shame of young adults trying to come to te ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Force Majeure at Donmar Warehouse Theatre

Force Majeure, the award-winning Swedish film directed by Ruben Ostlund and released in 2014, takes place at a skiing resort in the French Alps when a controlled avalanche goes wrong and everybody pan ...

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It’s Panto time again!

And with it you can feel the huge outpouring of relief at panto’s return to stages across the country this year following the fallow 2020 season when theatres were shuttered because of coronavirus. A ...

andrew 687 views 0 likes Dec 30, 2021