Rory Mullarkey admits to being a committed socialist but his satire on the English upper classes is poor stuff and the claque’s artificially loud laughter on the press night became more and more irrit ...
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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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Somerset Maugham, who in theatre history came midway between Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward, was the most popular British playwright of the first two decades of the 20th century. He has been shamefully n ...
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Joyce Glasser reviews Peter Von Kant (December 30, 2022) cert. 15, 85 mins Why, you might ask, has François Ozon, arguably France’s greatest and most prolific contemporary director, chosen to remake, ...
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