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Robert Tanitch reviews Lillian Hellman’s Days to Come on line

Mint Theatre, Off-Broadway, specialises in reviving lost and forgotten plays from the early 20th century. They have been going since 1992. Their production values are high and over the next six months ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews The National Theatre’s Dick Whittington on line

The one time the British nation goes to the theatre is during the Christmas period. For many people the only theatre they will ever see in their whole life is panto. In 2020 families hoped right up to ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Guiseppe Verdi’s Nabucco on line.

28-year-old Giuseppe Verdi in 1842 at La Scala in Milan had a big success with his biblical epic, Nabucco; and not least because of the ensembles which made a tremendous impact. Va, Pensiero, the poig ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra on line.

George Bernard Shaw wrote Caesar and Cleopatra in 1898 and modelled it on the then-fashionable pseudo-historical dramas of the day. It was conceived on the grand scale as a spectacular production for ...

andrew 628 views 0 likes Dec 15, 2020