Death and vengeance in Italy
Robert Tanitch reviews The Revenger’s Tragedy at Barbican Theatre, London EC2 The violence in Thomas Middleton’s revenge play, a once highly popular genre, is played out in all its vicious and grotesq ...
THEATRE REVIEWS
Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes – A ballet within a ballet
I can’t claim to be an afficionado of ballet at all. Indeed, in my 64 years on the planet I have never even seen a live ballet. But if Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes is anything to go by, then I have ...
Kidd Pivot takes a look at Nikolai Gogol’s comic masterpiece
Robert Tanitch reviews Revisor at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London EC1 REVISOR is presented by Kidd Pivot, a Canadian contemporary dance theatre company based in Vancouver and led by its founder and art ...
Can Pretty Woman The Musical repeat the box-office success of the film?
Robert Tanitch reviews Pretty Woman The Musical at Piccadilly Theatre, London W1 PRETTY WOMAN, the movie, got a bad press, but it went on to be a big hit with the public in 1990. It starred Richard Ge ...