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Robert Tanitch
Theatre: Reformation thriller in modern dress
friedrich schiller wrote mary stuart , his first-class political thriller, in 1800. robert icke’s urgent modern dress production at the alme...
Theatre: House of Commons drama gets my vote
james graham’s docudrama, this house , was first seen at the national theatre in 2012, and jeremy herrin’s fast-moving and exhilarating prod...
Theatre: The rich barber who wants to live like Jesus
sheppey , somerset maugham’s sardonic comedy, a modern morality play rooted in the 1929 slump and addressing the suffering of the poor, is s...
Theatre: Even 39 children can’t upstage the rock slob
school of rock , andrew lloyd webber’s exuberant new musical at new london theatre, is based on the popular 2003 american musical-comedy mov...
Theatre: Glenda’s raging Lear transcends gender
glenda jackson at 80 has returned to the stage after a 25-year absence to play king lear, one of the most exhausting roles in the theatrical...
Theatre: Declaring war on God and Mozart
peter shaffer’s amadeus at the national theatre is based on the legend that antonio salieri, composer to the court of emperor joseph ii of a...
Theatre: Harwood’s Dresser is top drawer
ronald harwood worked with donald wolfit for five years, and though the dresser at duke of york’s theatre is not about wolfit, harwood ackno...
Theatre: Twee, maybe – but delightfully English
la fille mal gardée at the royal opera house sounds very french and a bit naughty. but frederick ashton’s ballet could not be more english a...
Theatre: Melodramatic, dated – and utterly brilliant
charles dickens said on its publication that a tale of two cities was the best story he had written. not everybody agreed. the novel has nev...
Theatre: Behold a modern classic in the making
the pulitzer-winning american playwright suzan-lori parks goes back to the greek tragedies and homer’s odyssey to find a format for her play...
Theatre: Old poets fight it out in no man’s land
no one who saw john gielgud and ralph richardson in the original production of harold pinter’s no man’s land by peter hall will ever forget ...
Theatre: Biblical drama sinks to Up Pompeii! level
john wolfson’s the inn at lydda , at shakespeare’s globe theatre, is based on an incident recorded in the death of pilate, which can be foun...
Theatre: Branagh steps into Olivier’s comic shoes
it was the unexpected casting of laurence olivier as archie rice in john osborne’s the entertainer which made its premiere in 1959 so memora...
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