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Robert Tanitch reviews Noël Coward’s Suite in Three Keys at Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Surrey

SUITE IN THREE KEYS is the collective title for three plays by Noël Coward which premiered in 1966 with great success. They were the full-length A Song at Twilight, and a double bill, Shadows of the E ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Vanya at Duke of York’s Theatre, London

Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, which premiered in 1899, is generally considered to be one of the great plays of the 20th century. Not that you would know it from this revival. Simon Stephens’ radi ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Jack Thorne’s The Motive and the Cue at National Theatre/Lyttleton Theatre, London.

Sam Mendes commissioned Jack Thorne to write a play about John Gielgud directing Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway in 1964. Thorne took his inspiration from two books by actors who had been in the ...

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Robert Tanitch reviews Tennessee Williams’s The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore at Charing Cross Theatre, London.

“If you write a play with a strong female role,” said Tennessee Williams, “it is likely to surface repeatedly since female stars of a certain age have a rough time finding vehicles s ...

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