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The best pantomime I have ever seen

The best pantomime I have ever seen

Robert Tanitch reviews Dick Whittington at London Palladium, W1 The first recorded performance of a Dick Whittington pantomime was at Covent Garden in 1814. The great Grimaldi played the Dame. 200 yea ...
Spies betray people. That’s what spies do

Spies betray people. That’s what spies do

Robert Tanitch reviews Cell Mates at Hampstead Theatre, London NW3 The casting of Rick Mayall and Stephen Fry in Simon Gray’s Cell Mates in 1995 must have seemed a box-office dream-ticket. But w ...