Theatre Reviews, Reviews, Interviews, Articles

What is going to become of us? What are we going to do with our lives?

Robert Tanitch reviews Three Sisters at Almeida Theatre, London N1 One of the reasons for Anton Chekhov’s enduring success is that audiences can so easily identify with his characters’ suffering. The ...

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Have things improved for women since the 1980s?

Robert Tanitch reviews Top Girls at National Theatre/Lyttelton Caryl Churchill’s 1982 play about the price women pay for competing in a man’s world has always been grossly overrated. It is not, as has ...

markbendle 101 views 0 likes Apr 16, 2019

How did you vote on 23 June, 2016?

Robert Tanitch reviews Scary Bikers at Trafalgar Studios, London SW1. John Godber has written a two-hander which is billed as “a new comedy about life, love and staying on your bike!”. For those of us ...

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English National Ballet’s triple bill is dedicated to female choreographers

Robert Tanitch reviews She Persisted at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. London EC1 Tamara Rojo, English National Ballet’s artistic director, has said she wants to redress the gender in balance in contemporary ...

markbendle 243 views 0 likes Apr 9, 2019