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Robert Tanitch reviews Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night on line

I saw Diana Leblanc’s production on stage at The Festival Theatre, Stratford, Ontario, Canada in the mid-1990s. This performance is a filmed version of that production. It’s great to see the actors’ f ...

andrew 396 views 0 likes Nov 9, 2020

Robert Tanitch reviews Verdi’s La Traviata on line

The courtesan, with a heart of gold, nobly sacrificing herself for the man she loves and dying of consumption, is the very stuff of which romantic dramas are made. La Traviata (The Fallen Woman) was a ...

andrew 547 views 0 likes Nov 2, 2020

Robert Tanitch reviews Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night on line

If music be the food of love, play on. The play’s opening line is set to music and repeated again and again throughout Des McAnuff’s production which was seen at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, ...

andrew 426 views 0 likes Oct 26, 2020

Robert Tanitch reviews Miles Malleson’s Conflict on line

Miles Malleson (1888-1969) is probably best known to cinemagoers as a character actor in cameo roles in British films. His most memorable performances were in Ealing Comedy’s Kind Hearts and Coronets ...

andrew 505 views 0 likes Oct 22, 2020