The incomparable Maggie Smith
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs THE LADY IN THE VAN (Universal). First there was the memoir. Then there was the play. Now there’s the film and Maggie Smith repeating her role and Nicholas Hytne ...
Tag Archives: Robert Tanitch
Great night at English National Opera
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Akhnaten at London Coliseum Philip Grass’s extraordinary, monumental yet minimalist masterpiece is given an outstanding mythical, sensory and ballsy production by EN ...
Why not perform the play Jean Anouilh wrote?
Robert Tanitch reviews Welcome Home, Captain Fox! at Donmar Warehouse, London WC2 Jean Anouilh was the most popular French playwright in the mid-20th century, equally successful in Paris and London. I ...
Love me or kill me. “I write the truth,” said Sarah Kane, “and it kills me.”
Robert Tanitch reviews Cleansed at National Theatre/Dorfman “There is an enormous amount of depression in Cleansed because I felt an enormous depression when writing it,” said Sarah Kane in 1998, shor ...