Tag Archives: Robert Tanitch

Johnny didn’t come marching home

Johnny didn’t come marching home

Robert Tanitch reviews Johnny Got His Gun at Southwark Playhouse, London SE1 Dalton Trumbo took the title of his novel from the recruiting advert, Johnny Get Your Gun, a call to arms, dating from the ...
Is it fake or is it genuine?

Is it fake or is it genuine?

Robert Tanitch reviews Bakersfield Mist at Duchess Theatre, London WC2 Stephen Sachs’s two-hand play premiered in Los Angeles in 2011 at the Fountain Theatre, where Sachs is the artistic director. Bak ...
Ealing Studios Rarities Collection – volume 12

Ealing Studios Rarities Collection – volume 12

Robert Tanitch reviews 4 four 1930’s British films on a double-disc DVD set LOYALTIES (1933).  Basil Dean had directed John Galsworthy’s play in 1922 and his film gives a very good idea of what acting ...
American drama gets big emotional performances

American drama gets big emotional performances

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (Entertainment on Video) Tracy Letts’s bitter, cynical saga is a classic American dysfunctional family drama with big, emotional stagy perfo ...