Shakespeare’s Shylock as opera
Robert Tanitch reviews WNO’s The Merchant of Venice at Royal Opera House, London Shakespeare’s play is one of his most accessible but it has lost its popular appeal since the Holocaust. At the very fi ...
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O brave new digital world
Robert Tanitch reviews the RSC’s The Tempest at the Barbican Theatre, London EC2 Shakespeare was a commercial playwright and he always gave the public what they wanted. In 1611 what they wanted was ro ...
How do you like your Shakespeare?
Robert Tanitch reviews Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe, London SE1 One of the major Shakespearian events in the 20th century was Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud famously alternated Romeo and ...
Absorbing and well-acted, this debut is not entirely satisfying
Joyce Glasser reviews Lady Macbeth (April 28, 2017) Cert. 15, 88 min. As theatre director, William Oldroyd directed a fringe production of Macbeth, but for his feature film debut he opts for an adapta ...