Tag Archives: theatre

Class, privilege and old-world snobbery

Class, privilege and old-world snobbery

Robert Tanitch reviews Relative Values at Harold Pinter Theatre, London SW1 Noel Coward’s comedy was never that good. It felt dreadfully old-fashioned, even at its premiere in 1951. It was, as Coward ...
The view is quite different now

The view is quite different now

Robert Tanitch reviews A View from the Bridge at The Young Vic, London SE1 In ancient times tragedies were always about great men and women, kings, queens, generals, figures of myth, whose fatal flaws ...
Politics rip a family apart

Politics rip a family apart

Robert Tanitch reviews Other Desert Cities at The Old Vic, London SE1 Jon Robin Baitz’s American family drama is an articulate debate about the legacy of Californian Republicanism and is set in Palm S ...
Angela Lansbury returns to the London stage

Angela Lansbury returns to the London stage

Robert Tanitch reviews Blithe Spirit at Gielgud Theatre, London W1 40 years ago I saw Angela Lansbury in the musical Gypsy in which she played Gypsy Rose Lee’s ambitious mother. I count her singing an ...