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 ...
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Samuel Foote puts his foot right in it
Robert Tanitch reviews Mr Foote’s Other Leg at Hampstead Theatre, London NW3 Samuel Foote (1720-1777), the long-forgotten, one-legged playwright and actor-manager of the Little Theatre in Haymarket, w ...
Sam Mendes’ acclaimed King Lear theatre production in cinemas soon
KING LEAR broadcast to cinemas worldwide as part of National Theatre Live on 1 May 2014 Sam Mendes’ acclaimed National Theatre production of Shakespeare’s KING LEAR with Simon Russell Beale in the ti ...
Simon Russell appears as Shakespeare’s King Lear at the National Theatre
Robert Tanitch reviews King Lear at National Theatre/Olivier Simon Russell Beale has played a wide range of Shakespearean characters: Falstaff, Timon of Athens, Leontes, Malvolio, Cassius, Benedict, H ...