Dead Funny is deadly serious
Robert Tanitch reviews Dead Funny at Vaudeville Theatre, London WC2 Humour is a funny thing. It is not always funny. I think a lot of audiences are going to be surprised at just how serious Terry John ...
THEATRE REVIEWS
If you are a David Bowie fan, go for the songs
Robert Tanitch reviews Lazarus at King’s Cross Theatre, London N1 King’s Cross Theatre, which is just behind King’s Cross Station, now has three auditoria. The latest venue, a 900-seater, is housing t ...
Glenda Jackson returns to the stage as King Lear
Robert Tanitch reviews King Lear at The Old Vic, London SE1 Glenda Jackson has played Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth 1, Hedda Gabler, Berenice, Phedre, Mother Courage, Charlotte Corday in Peter Weiss’s Ma ...
Is there a more boring play than Shakespeare’s Cymbeline?
Robert Tanitch reviews the RSC’s Cymbeline at the Barbican Theatre, London. Shakespeare’s romance, set in Ancient Britain and telling a convoluted, implausible and highly artificial story, has never b ...