“Let not poor Nellie starve!”
Robert Tanitch reviews Nell Gwynn at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London SE1 Within four days there have been two premieres of British plays about theatrical life in the 17th and 18th centuries. First ...
THEATRE REVIEWS
It isn’t every day you see male dancers in tutus and pointe shoes.
Robert Tanitch reviews Programme Two of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo at Peacock Theatre, London WC2 Men in frocks are the norm on the London stage at the moment. They can be found in the Broa ...
The barbarians are even now at the gate of Western democracy
Robert Tanitch reviews Barbarians at Sadler’s Wells, London EC1 “I am looking for something pure and innocent,” says Hofesh Shechter, internationally renowned for Political Mother There is nothing eit ...
Samuel Foote puts his foot right in it
Robert Tanitch reviews Mr Foote’s Other Leg at Hampstead Theatre, London NW3 Samuel Foote (1720-1777), the long-forgotten, one-legged playwright and actor-manager of the Little Theatre in Haymarket, w ...