OUR TRAVEL WRITER NIGEL HEATH STEPS OUT FOR MORE ADVENTURES ON THE CHILTERN WAY
The Stag and Huntsman is a warm and welcoming inn in the small and picturesque village of Hambleden just a couple of miles from the River Thames near Henley,,, It made the perfect overnight stopover...
View ArticleUPCYCLE: From Packaging to Art (GPS Gallery, 36 Great Pulteney Street WNF...
When, in 1917, Marcel Duchamp revolutionised art with The Fountain, a urinal turned on its side, “signed” with the letters R. Mutt and placed on a functional pedestal, the world had its first Ready...
View ArticleRobert Tanitch reviews Oliver Cotton’s The Score at Theatre Royal Haymarket,...
The leading characters in Oliver Cotton’s The Score, are a great musician and a great militarist in the Age of Enlightenment. The play is directed by Trevor Nunn. The set and costumes are by Robert...
View ArticleA STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at THE CRUCIBLE – March 4th 2025
From the start A Streetcar Named Desire is a drama destined to end in tears and in this tremendously powerful, massively gripping Crucible production that final explosion of soul-destroyed tears is...
View ArticleRobert Tanitch reviews Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull at Barbican Theatre, London
Thomas Ostermeier’s radical contemporary production begins with an actor driving a buggy on stage. He takes out his guitar, approaches a standing microphone and sings Billy Bragg’s “The Milkman of...
View ArticleRobert Tanitch reviews The Little Prince at the London Coliseum
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s best-selling 1942 novella is a children’s book for adults. It has been translated into nearly as many languages as the Bible and has been adapted for stage and film multiple...
View ArticleMUSIC FOR CURIOUS MINDS and A CELEBRATION OF CZECH MUSIC – Doncaster CAST –...
While the considerable talents of Ensemble 360’s string players shimmered through Shostakovich in Sheffield at the weekend, the wind-playing virtuosi thrilled in Doncaster. Having first sprinkled...
View ArticleRobert Tanitch reviews Dracula A Comedy of Terrors at Menier Chocolate...
The stage-struck Bram Stoker (1841-1912) had a nightmare, which he said was produced by a dinner of dressed crab and in 1897, having done his research, he published the most famous Gothic horror story...
View ArticleRobert Tanitch reviews Ryan Calais Cameron’s Retrograde at Apollo Theatre,...
Ryan Calais Cameron is the author of the multi-award winning For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide when the Hue Gets Too Heavy. His new play is a tribute to Sidney Poitier, a great American actor...
View ArticleRobert Tanitch reviews April de Angelis’s Playhouse Creatures at Orange Tree...
Oliver Cromwell and his highly Puritan government closed theatres in 1642 and they remained closed for 18 years. Yes, 18 years. Had I been alive then, how would I have survived? April de Angelis’s...
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