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Diverse casting isn’t a trend it’s a movement

Robert Tanitch reviews Hamlet and As You Like it at Shakespeare’s Globe, London SE1. Michelle Terry, the new artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre has promised diverse casting in terms of s ...

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Malvolio has a sex-change. National Theatre casts Tamsin Greig as Malvolia

Robert Tanitch reviews Twelfth Night at National Theatre/Olivier Actresses are taking over male roles. It started with Fiona Shaw playing Richard II. More recently audiences have seen Helen Mirren as ...

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Can Tosca save a Republican sympathiser from a traitor’s death?

Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Tosca at London Coliseum Victorien Sardou, the most prolific of the French nineteenth century dramatists, was master of the well-made play, a term used nowadays only in a ...

markbendle 1473 views 0 likes Oct 13, 2016