Dawn French is being serious
Robert Tanitch reviews Dawn French at Vaudeville Theatre, London WC2 Dawn French has wanted to do an autobiographical one-woman show for a long time and she has also wanted Michael Grandage to direct ...
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Harley Granville Barker’s Waste is a scathing analysis of political compromise
Robert Tanitch reviews Waste at National Theatre/Lyttelton. Harley Granville Barker’s political drama, originally written in 1907 when he was barely 30 and banned by The Lord Chamberlain, was no ...
Go to ENO for the singing rather than the production
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s The Force of Destiny at London Coliseum One of the reasons Verdi’s opera of love, war, revenge and death, is not staged that often is that the libretto is such a rambling ...
Terence Rattigan’s soufflé
Robert Tanitch reviews Harlequinade/All on Her Own at Garrick Theatre, London WC2 Kenneth Branagh opens a year-long season of plays with Harlequinade, a farce by Terence Rattigan, and The Winter’s Tal ...