Tag Archives: Robert Tanitch

Patrick Marber and the not-so-beautiful game

Patrick Marber and the not-so-beautiful game

Robert Tanitch reviews The Red Lion at National Theatre, London The beautiful game is no longer beautiful. Football and corruption seem to go hand in hand. How long will it be before the Augean stable ...
David Alden puts his cards on the table

David Alden puts his cards on the table

Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s The Queen of Spades at London Coliseum. Tchaikovsky was moved to tears by Hermann’s death. But in Alexander Pushkin’s 1833 novella the tormented Hermann, the compulsive ga ...