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Robert Tanitch
Theatre: A roundabout return for Priestley’s comedy
jb priestley’s roundabout had its premiere in liverpool 1932 and there was a production by cambridge undergraduates in 1935; and that was it...
Theatre: GIs and Tips the cat in a Cornish war scandal
emma rice, artistic director of shakespeare’s globe theatre, made her name as director and then artistic director of kneehigh, cornwall’s in...
Theatre: The search for integrity in a rat-race society
richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein ii’s allegro premiered in 1947 and got a mixed press. broadway audiences, who had just seen oklahoma! ...
Theatre: An extraordinary study of barrenness
the young vic is well known for its radical approach to the classics. australian director simon stone’s truly remarkable reworking of yerma ...
Theatre: Why I feel sorry for Harry Potter’s son
in the victorian era, the heyday for popular theatre, audiences loved melodrama, spectacle and sensational scenes. “sensation is what the pu...
Theatre: Judas upstages Jesus in Superstar revival
andrew lloyd webber and tim rice’s jesus christ superstar is a rock opera for secular audiences, concentrating on jesus’s humanity rather th...
Theatre: Radical Swan Lake with a royal twist
swan lake is every choreographer’s plaything and tchaikovsky’s score is always a winner. graeme murphy’s radical version for australian ball...
Theatre: Theatreland struggles to top real-life drama
at the royal court, during a six-week rehearsal period, playwright anthony neilson and his actors created and developed unreachable from scr...
Theatre: Gangster kids splurge their way to glory
bugsy malone , the film, made british director and screenwriter alan parker’s name in 1975. the musical, with songs by paul williams, is a p...
Theatre: A Henry V you just can’t believe in
shakespeare’s henry v can be performed as either patriotic jingoism or anti-war propaganda. the latter interpretation is much more popular t...
Theatre: A Richard III who takes his tyranny seriously
shakespeare’s richard iii has always been popular with actors and audiences. richard burbage and david garrick scored a huge success. so did...
Theatre: Brought to heel by a good pair of legs
for many people, the homecoming is harold pinter’s masterpiece. jamie lloyd celebrates the play’s 50th birthday at trafalgar studios with a ...
Theatre & Music
theatre kidman works her chemistry on dna nicole kidman, who was last seen on the london stage 17 years ago in david hare’s adaptation of ar...
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