Would you want to be 17 again?
Robert Tanitch reviews Seventeen at Lyric Hammersmith, London W6. Anne-Louise Sarks directed the premiere of Matthew Whittet’s Seventeen at Belvoir Theatre in Sydney. It’s a theatre for serious theatr ...
THEATRE REVIEWS
An opportunity to see a rarely performed Stephen Sondheim musical
Robert Tanitch reviews The Frogs at Jermyn Street Theatre, London SW1 Aristophanes (448-350 BC) was a popular playwright providing his audience with a good commercial mix of slapstick, sexual innuendo ...
The drummers of Japan are not to be missed. See Yamato on tour
Robert Tanitch reviews Yamato at Peacock Theatre, London, and touring The beat is powerful. The sound is awesome. The rhythm is mesmerising. The speed is dazzling. The energy is inexhaustible. I still ...
Partenope is presented as a 1920’s comedy without any old-fashioned Roman heroics
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Partenope at London Coliseum In 1726 Owen Swinney, manager of the London opera, dismissed the erotic libretto for Handel’s Partenope as entirely unsuitable for the Royal A ...