Ralph Fiennes impresses in Ibsen revival
Robert Tanitch reviews The Master Builder at Old Vic, London SW1 The critics at its British premiere in 1893 were quick to dismiss Henrik Ibsen’s play as “three acts of gibberish… in ...
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Lucille Ball, queen of comedy, is idolised by a gay young man
Robert Tanitch reviews I Loved Lucy at Jermyn Street Theatre, London SW1 Lucille Ball (1911-1989), the brilliant, screwball, redheaded American comedienne, became a national institution with the TV si ...
The worst fear and nightmare of a parent
Robert Tanitch reviews Rabbit Hole at Hampstead Theatre, London NW3 David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole won the Pulitzer Prize for best drama in 2007. His earliest plays were incredibly whimsical absur ...
“L’Étoile” is not as starry as I had hoped
Robert Tanitch reviews L’Etoile at Royal Opera House, London It is not often, apart from Offenbach, that you are able to see a French comic operetta outside of France, so a production of Emmanuel Chab ...