What the Dickens is going on?
Robert Tanitch reviews A Tale of Two Cities at Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, London NW1 Charles Dickens’ novel has never been popular with the critics; but it has always been hugely popular with th ...
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Read the book first
Book to TV adaptations were plentiful in 2016 and this year progresses we can expect to see those “soon to be TV series” shelves in our bookshops filling up fast. When an adaptation of the ...
Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities is good old-fashioned theatre and not to be missed.
Robert Tanitch reviews A Tale of Two Cities at Richmond Theatre, Surrey, and touring Charles Dickens said on its publication that A Tale of Two Cities was the best story he had written. Not everybody ...
Theatre books
Robert Tanitch reviews two books OLIVER! A Dickensian musical by Marc Napolitano (Oxford University Press, £22.99). Charles Dickens’s novels were so popular that they were staged instantly – sometimes ...