Flashing lights and fantastic tunes
Mature Times reviews Flashdance – The Musical at The Bristol Hippodrome A colourful array of neon Lycra, legwarmers, sweat bands and retro running shorts took the stage by storm as Flashdance th ...
THEATRE REVIEWS
Love between a man and a woman, said August Strindberg, is war
Robert Tanitch reviews Julie at National Theatre/Lyttelton, London The Danish censor banned Strindberg’s Miss Julie and so the premiere in Copenhagen in 1889 took place in a private room to an a ...
Choreographer William Forsythe pushes the boundaries and breaks the rules
Robert Tanitch reviews All Forsythe at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London EC1 Semperoper Ballett, based in Dresden’s magnificent opera house, makes its first appearance at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in a trip ...
Brush up your Shakespeare with Opera North’s Broadway classic
Robert Tanitch reviews Opera North’s Kiss Me Kate at London Coliseum Shakespeare’s plays have inspired operas by Verdi, Bellini, Gounod, Berlioz and Britten and inspired Broadway musicals, most notabl ...