Tag: theatre reviews
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Robert Tanitch reviews Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London.
Matthew Bourne, master dance theatre showman, has been successfully reinventing the major classical ballets over the last thirty years. His version of Romeo and Juliet, which premiered in 2019, is […]
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Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap – a mystery night of whodunnit!
The Mousetrap, famously written by the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie had its first airing as a play at The Theatre Royal, Nottingham in October 1952. Shortly after, it transferred […]
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Robert Tanitch reviews Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman at Duke of York’s Theatre, London.
Martin McDonagh has said that he prefers writing films to plays. He has had a big success on screen with In Bruges, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and most recently, […]
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Robert Tanitch reviews Dr Semmelweis at Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Dr Ignaz Semmelweiss (1818-1865), the Hungarian surgeon, physicist, scientist, now recognised as a pioneer of antiseptic policy, was unacknowledged in his lifetime and died in a lunatic asylum. In 1847, […]