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Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s La Boheme at London Coliseum, London.
English National Opera celebrates Puccini’s centenary with a revival of Jonathan Miller’s ever-popular 2009 production of La Boheme, sung by a young cast and conducted by Celia Cafiero. One of the...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock at the Gielgud...
Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock, written in anger and compassion, begins in farce and ends in tragedy. “What can God do against the stupidity of men?” The action is set at the end of the Irish...
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Joaquin Phoenix reprises his Oscar winning Joker with Lady Gaga, musical...
Joyce Glasser reviews Joker: Folie à Deux (October 4, 2024), Cert 15, 138 mins. Jesters or fools appear in history as travelling performers or live-in entertainers in the households of noblemen or...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Shakespeare’s Coriolanus at National Theatre/Olivier...
Shakespeare’s last tragedy and most political play has never been popular with the general theatregoer. It usually works best at times of national strife when Left and Right find they can use its...
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ADVENTURE ON THE CHILTERN WAY
Mature Times travel writer, Nigel Heath, walks the Chiltern Way Our latest walking adventure meandering around the one hundred and thirty-four mile long Chiltern Way began with a positioning stay at...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Lindsey Ferrentino’s The Fear of 13 at the Donmar...
Adrien Brody, the American actor, is famed for his lead role in The Pianist, the Polish holocaust film directed by Roman Polanski, which won him an Oscar for Best Actor. He is making his London stage...
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Opera North’s THE MAGIC FLUTE – LEEDS GRAND – Oct 11th 2024
With Mozart himself conducting only months before his death at just 35, The Magic Flute premiered in Vienna in 1791 and was an instant hit. More than 230 years on, it’s still one of our most popular...
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Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s The Turn of the Screw at the London Coliseum
Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, published in 1898, is one of the best ghost stories. Chilling and elusive, it has subtle psychological depths. Oscar Wilde thought it “the most wonderful, lurid,...
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Opera North’s A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT’S DREAM at LEEDS GRAND – Oct 12th 2024
Joyously brilliant! Wow! The heavenly magic of Britten’s unique music, played and sung to perfection, marries so superbly with the laugh-out-loud comedy and fun of the piece and all is delivered by...
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Francois Ozon’s farce looks back to screw-ball comedies of the 1930s, and...
Joyce Glasser reviews The Crime is Mine (October 18, 2024), cert 15, 102 mins. Like Wes Anderson, but even more prolific, varied and consistently good, French writer-director François Ozon attracts...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre, London
Sophocles’ Oedipus was first performed in Greece in 429 BC. 2,500 years on, it still has the power to shock. Oedipus does not know he has killed his father and marred his mother. The great thing about...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The Duchess [of Malfi] at Trafalgar Theatre, London
“I am the Duchess of Malfi still,” says the stoic Duchess under torture. It’s a famous line in John Webster’s Jacobean tragedy. But at Trafalgar Theatre, the audience is no longer watching John...
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A well-timed release for Abi Abassi’s riveting film about the toxic...
Joyce Glasser reviews The Apprentice (October 18, 2022) Cert. 15, 122 mins. The timing is perfect. The Apprentice is about the “apprenticeship” of a young, ambitious but green Donald Trump (Sebastian...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Luna at Sadler’s Wells...
Five international female choreographers, working in different locations and different languages, produce six separate abstract pieces, each lasting about fifteen minutes, to celebrate women and...
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How Online Games can Level Up your Health
In this day and age, online gaming has grown to be much more than a form of entertainment. Whether it takes the shape of iGaming, generally referred to as online gambling, or traditional gaming in its...
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An entertaining, if muffled, biopic of Brian Epstein that leaves you wanting...
Joyce Glasser reviews Midas Man (October 30, 2024) Cert 12, 112 mins. PRIME VIDEO Paul McCartney is quoted at the end of this Brian Epstein biopic saying, ‘If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it was...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Birmingham Royal Ballet’s La Fille mal gardée at...
La Fille mal gardée sounds like the title of a naughty French boulevard farce, but Frederick Ashton’s ballet, designed by Osbert Lancaster, could not be more English. Pastorally pure and innocent, it...
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In this entertaining adventure tale, Steve McQueen looks at London, 1941,...
Joyce Glasser reviews Blitz (November 1, 2024) Cert 12A, 120 mins. In cinemas (Apple TV from the 22nd) Steve McQueen tells the story of the Blitz from the point of view of one fictitious, but symbolic...
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Adventures In Tuscany
by Nigel Heath The Villa Borgo di Colleoli is a magnificent former Renaissance residence situated amid the green and rolling Tuscan Hills with fine views all around. It had been owned for many...
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Probably the best, certainly the most audacious, ambitious and electrifying,...
Joyce Glasser reviews Emilia Pérez (October 25, 2024) Cert. 15, 132 mins. In Cinemas (on Netflix from 13 November) The French auteur Jacques Audiard’s two greatest films, The Beat that My Heart...
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