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NIGEL HEATH REVISITS HISTORIC WELLS IN SOMERSET BUT HAS ANOTHER MISSION IN MIND
Sir Winston Churchill it appears loved the small city and market town of Wells in Somerset with its stunning Gothic Cathedral and lovely Bishop’s Palace Gardens nestled at the foot of the Mendip...
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WATCH FILMS AT HOME: Robert Tanitch reviews 8 films
CALENDAR GIRLS (BBC iPlayer). A true story. It’s the full monty all over again, but this time it’s the women who are taking off their kit. Middle-aged members of a Yorkshire Woman’s Institute (the...
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Actress Zoë Kravitz’s topical feature debut is shot like an enveloping nightmare
Joyce Glasser reviews Blink Twice (August 23, 2024) Cert 15, 103 mins. In cinemas To say that Zoë Kravitz, the daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, was brought up in a show biz milieu is an...
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Jude Law is superb as Henry VIII but the only Firebrand here is Anne Askew.
Joyce Glasser reviews Firebrand (September 6, 2024) Cert 15, 120 mins. British and American audiences can’t get enough of the Tudors and actors of the calibre of Charles Laughton, Richard Burton,...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing at The Old Vic, London
For many critics, Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing is their favourite Stoppard play. I have to admit it has never been mine. I originally saw it in 1982, its premiere, and then again in 2000. Seeing it...
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TRAVEL WRITER NIGEL HEATH SPENDS A FASCINATING DAY IN THE YESTERYEAR WORLD OF...
Three spitfires evoking vivid memories of WWII when Great Britain stood alone soared and dived through sombre grey skies over the Sussex countryside. Below and some sixty minutes later the evocative...
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CIRQUE: THE GREATEST SHOW – Doncaster CAST – Sept 7th 2024
In the middle of the last century, masses of people visited Big Tops up and down the land to enjoy the grand spectacle of a circus like Billy Smart’s or Chipperfield’s. Masses more would watch broad...
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A gifted Black student at Yale combines molecular biology with drug dealing...
Joyce Glasser reviews Rob Peace (September 6, 2024) Cert 15, 120 mins. This biographical film written and directed by the actor Chiwetel Ejiofor who also co-stars, establishes its real-life...
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Robert Tanitch reviews London City Ballet at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London.
A big welcome back! London City Ballet, a touring company founded by Harold King, closed in 1996 due to financial difficulties. Almost thirty years on, it returns to London, following a tour of...
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LOOKING FOR ME FRIEND – CRUCIBLE PLAYHOUSE – Sept 11th 2024
Bubbling and sparkling all the way with quirky, unique brilliance and charismatic charm, Victoria Wood was a shining gem of a national treasure. She may have died in 2016, but courtesy of media...
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Some superb performances, led by Ian McKellen’s, go far to hold together this...
Joyce Glasser reviews The Critic (September 13, 2024) Cert 15, 95 mins. The intensity of many scenes and performances from some of Britain’s best actors are almost, but not enough to hold together...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at Theatre Royal,...
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, the most famous play of the 20th century, has been famously described as a play in which nothing happens twice. Audiences at its London English-speaking premiere in...
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BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY VOICE – CAST, Doncaster – Sept 20th 2024
Black Is The Color of My Voice, a compelling 70-minute one-act play, was written by Apphia Campbell in 2013, who brought it vividly to life onstage herself in the intervening years to huge accolades....
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Robert Tanitch reviews A Face in the Crowd at the Young Vic, London
A Face in the Crowd, the film, directed by Elia Kazan, scripted by Budd Schulberg and acted by Andy Griffiths and Patricia Neal in 1957, is a hard act to follow. Kazan’s direction and the actors’...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant at Royal Court Theatre, London.
The giant is Roald Dahl (1916-1990). The world-famous children’s author was 6 feet six inches tall. Children loved his books; but many librarians thought they were unsuitable for children and banned...
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The female gaze dominates this important, if flawed portrait of Vogue and war...
Joyce Glasser reviews Lee (September 13, 2024) Cert 15, 116 mins. In most biographical films, if the teenage protagonist poses nude for her father, an amateur photographer; is rescued from an oncoming...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Arthur Wing Pinero’s The Cabinet Minister at The...
Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934), an indifferent actor, was an expert writer of farces. His fame began in 1885 with The Magistrate and continued into the 20th century. He wrote The Cabinet Minister in...
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IBSEN’s A DOLL’S HOUSE – THE CRUCIBLE, SHEFFIELD – Sept 26th 2024
Amazingly beautiful, magnificently acted, totally engrossing and tremendously fascinating, this Ibsen adaptation is another triumph for multi-award-winning writer Chris Bush and director Elin...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The National Ballet of Canada at Sadler’s Wells...
The National Ballet of Canada, under the artistic leadership of Hope Muir, returns to Sadler’s Wells after an eleven-year gap with an all-Canadian triple bill, showcasing three Canadian choreographers...
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After its long development, Coppola’s film is not just over ripe but has...
Joyce Glasser reviews Megalopolis (September 27, 2024) Cert 15, 138 mins. If you’ve seen American Graffiti, The Conversation, The Godfather (Part I and II) and Apocalypse Now, you’ll know that...
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