Play outside this summer
If you love theatre and the great outdoors, then seeing a theatrical performance in one of the UK’s great outside spaces is hard to beat. We have a great tradition of open-air theatre in the UK. Theat ...
THEATRE REVIEWS
King Lear ranks among Ian McKellen’s best performances
Robert Tanitch reviews King Lear at Duke of York’s Theatre, London WC2 Ian McKellen at 79 must be one of the oldest actors to play the 80-year-old King and his performance is a major theatrical event. ...
We all do things in a relationship that aren’t what the other person wants
Robert Tanitch reviews The One at Soho Theatre, London W1 A middle class couple spend an evening listening to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera on stereo, watching porn on TV, having sex on t ...
Why was I born if I am not to live forever?
Robert Tanitch reviews Exit the King at National Theatre/Olivier, London Eugène Ionesco (1909 -1994), a major playwright of the French Absurdist Theatre, which flourished in the 1950s and 1960s, was i ...