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Robert Tanitch reviews London Tide at National Theatre/Lyttleton Theatre, London
Charles Dickens’s novels were so popular in the 19th century they were pirated and staged before he had even finished writing them. Victorian readers and theatregoers loved the melodrama. In the 20th...
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Style 40, substance, love in Luca Guadagnino’s passionless tale of young...
Joyce Glasser reviews Challengers (April 26, 2024) Cert 15, 131 mins. In cinemas and on Amazon Seven years ago the Italian director Luca Guadagnino set our movie screens sizzling with Call Me By Your...
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THE MAGIC OF THE BEATLES – DONCASTER CAST – MAY 10th 2024
Of course, the spooky magic of a real-life 1960’s Beatles’ gig was that no-one in the audience ever heard a single note the Fab Four played! A full-on, relentless tsunami of shrill, hysterical...
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NIGEL HEATH AND HIS GARDENING ENTHUSIAST WIFE JENNY ENJOY A GRAND DAY OUT AT...
What a fabulous way to spend a day strolling around The Royal Horticultural Society’s spectacular Spring Show on the Three Counties Showground set against the stunning backdrop of the undulating and...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Scottish Ballet’s A Streetcar Named Desire at Sadler’s...
There have been many fine revivals of Tennessee Williams’s greatest play since its 1947 Broadway premiere, a landmark in American theatre history; but none has been able to erase the memories of the...
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MUSIC IN THE ROUND FESTIVAL LAUNCH 2024 – Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield – May...
We have lift off! Launching itself to lofty heights, Music in the Round’ s 2024 Festival of Chamber Music opened with an uplifting opening concert of exhilarating music, most splendidly performed by...
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NIGEL HEATH SPENDS A FASCINATING MINI BREAK VISITING CORNISH GARDENS, A...
Waves of mist were drifting in across the bleakness of Bodmin Moor as my wife Jenny and I pulled into the car park of the famous Jamaica Inn. It was instantly obvious to see how famous authoress...
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40 years on from the Miners’ Strike and the Battle of Orgreave
It’s hard to believe now that some 40 years ago the unexpected announcement at the beginning of March 1984 by the National Coal Board that it was to cut the amount of coal mined in this country by...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Jerry’s Girls at the Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre,...
Jerry is Jerry Herman (1931- 2019) who was one of the leading composers and lyricists of the American musical theatre. He won many awards and honours and is famed for such Broadway successes as Hello,...
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FRIDAY NIGHT IN PARIS – Roderick Williams with Ensemble 360 – Crucible...
Resplendent concerts continue apace in Music in the Round’s 2024 Festival of Chamber Music and mid-way, a sparkling Friday Night in Paris was spent in the company of Faure, Ravel, Poulenc, Ensemble...
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REGULAR TRAVEL WRITER NIGEL HEATH SHARE’S THE FIRST CHAPTER OF HIS LATEST...
In holiday mode when the borderline between dreams and reality can blur a little, my wife Jenny and I with absolutely no experience of major DIY projects and no command of the French language,...
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Strong on authenticity, if underpowered, this true WWII survival story offers...
Joyce Glasser reviews The Boy in the Woods (May 27, 2024) Cert 12, 101 mins. On digital platforms There is something offensive and morally questionable about fictitious Holocaust stories: not only...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Northern Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet at Sadler’s Wells...
Christopher Gable devised and directed his highly popular Romeo and Juliet for Northern Ballet in 1992. The choreography was by Massimo Moricone. In 2005 Lez Botherston’s set and costumes were...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Fawlty Towers – The Play at Apollo Theatre, London
50 years on, Fawlty Towers remains the greatest British TV sit-com series. There were two seasons in 1975 and 1979, six episodes in each, twelve in all, starring John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew...
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What to Consider When Crafting Your New Home’s Garden
Whether you’re in a flat or a house with a small garden, when looking to move, getting a bigger garden is always high up your list. A bigger garden comes with a whole bunch of benefits. You have...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Noël Coward’s Suite in Three Keys at Orange Tree...
SUITE IN THREE KEYS is the collective title for three plays by Noël Coward which premiered in 1966 with great success. They were the full-length A Song at Twilight, and a double bill, Shadows of the...
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MY FAIR LADY – A Leeds Playhouse-Opera North co-production at Leeds Playhouse...
As with Sondheim’s A Little Night Music in 2022 My Fair Lady combines the truly exciting musicianship of Opera North’s big, beautiful orchestra and chorus of magnificent actor-singers with a glorious,...
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The Exhibition on Screen team celebrates the Bicentenary of London’s...
Joyce Glasser reviews Exhibition on Screen: My National Gallery (June 4, 2024), Cert 12A, 98 mins. in cinemas In 2014 the great American director Frederick Wiseman, now 94, made one of his trademark...
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THE SYNDICATE – SHEFFIELD LYCEUM – June 11th 2024
Written by the late Kay Mellor, The Syndicate, like Band Of Gold, was a big TV success. It ran for four series, telling the diverse stories of a group of ordinary workers who suddenly win millions on...
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NIGEL HEATH EMBARKS ON A WILDLIFE SEA AND LAND SAFARI ADVENTURE
Wheeling suitcases we joined a migrating shoal of people hurrying along a deserted Penzance prom as a blood red sun hovered just above the horizon in a crystal-clear pale blue sky. It was 5.45am and...
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