A story of Tom Jones – The Musical
Eileen Caiger Gray reviews A story of Tom Jones – The Musical at Sheffield Lyceum As a youngster, Tommy Woodward was a scruffy little ‘erbert. Eventually, though, that scruffy little ’erbe ...
THEATRE REVIEWS
Why not revive Nikolai Erdman’s “The Suicide”?
Robert Tanitch reviews The Suicide at The National Theatre/Lyttelton Nikolai Erdman’s classic Russian comedy is one of the great farces of the 20th century. I saw a brilliant nerve-wracking productio ...
Boy oh boy, the star-turn is not the Boy or the play but the travelator.
Robert Tanitch reviews Boy at Almeida Theatre, London N1. Leo Butler says what he is trying to do in Boy is to dramatise somebody’s life who has day after day after day nothing to do. 17-year-old Liam ...
Tennessee Williams’ little-known autobiographical play gets a revival
Robert Tanitch reviews In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel at Charing Cross Theatre, London WC2 Tennessee Williams’ heyday was the 1950’s and he had been long out of fashion with the public and the critics wh ...