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Robert Tanitch reviews Dr Strangelove at Noël Coward Theatre, London.
Stanley Kubrick’s classic black comedy and political satire, Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, premiered in 1964 at the height of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile...
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Coal merchant Cillian Murphy and Mother Superior Emily Watson collide in this...
Joyce Glasser reviews Small Things Like These (November 1, 2024) Cert. 12A, 98 mins. In cinemas After the affecting film adaptation of Claire Keegan’s story Foster (retitled The Quiet Girl) became...
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KENREX – Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield – Oct 31st 2024
Kenrex is a startlingly brilliant piece of theatre that sets superlatives flying on all fronts. The riveting acting, the structure of the writing, the stagecraft and unique staging are exceptionally...
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Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Rigoletto at the London Coliseum.
When Verdi was asked which of his operas was his favourite he replied Rigoletto. The premiere in 1851 was a huge success with the public and has remained so ever since. Whenever ENO was strapped for...
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On the 50th anniversary of the partition of Cyprus, two courageous filmmakers...
Joyce Glasser reviews The Divided Island (November 1, 2024) Cert 15, 90 mins. How many families on a package holiday or honeymooners enjoying the beaches of Cyprus think about its strategic location...
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Opera North’s RUDDIGORE (or The Witch’s Curse) – Leeds Grand – Nov 1st 2024
Liberally laced with witty words, satirical jibes, painfully pathetic puns, perilous patters of tortuous tongue-twisters, rousing melodies and all manner of comical, convoluted shenanigans and...
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WATCH FILMS AT HOME: Robert Tanitch reviews 8 films
THE MILLIONAIRESS (YouTube). Bernard Shaw’s didactic farce, written in 1936 when he was 80 and seen on BBC television in 1972, is one of his poorest plays. Maggie Smith, highly mannered, very...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The Rite of Spring and Common Ground[s] at Sadler’s...
Common Ground[s] is calm, dignified and slow. The Rite of Spring is wild, savage and fast. The double bill is a collaboration between Sadler’s Wells, Pina Bausch Foundation in Germany and École des...
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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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Northern Ballet’ s A CHRISTMAS CAROL – Sheffield Lyceum – Nov 7th 2024
Always a festive treat is the bewitching charm of Northern Ballet’s A Christmas Carol. With drama and character firmly at the fore, theatricality fires on all fronts as the stage fills with spectacles...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at Ambassadors...
I came out of the theatre thinking about Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray remaining young and beautiful all his life whilst his portrait in the attic grows old and ugly, registering his decadent life. F...
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The only surprise in this third Paddington film is how tiresome and misguided...
Joyce Glasser reviews Paddington in Peru (November 8, 2024), Cert PG, 106 mins. Paddington in Peru, based on the iconic Paddington Bear by Michael Bond, is surely the most anticipated animated film of...
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Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s The Elixir of Love at the London Coliseum.
Gaetano Donizetti wrote 68 operas in 27 years. The Elixir of Love, an opera buffa masterpiece, the most melodious of romantic comedies, was written at speed in six weeks and premiered in Milan in...
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More than a documentary, this is an indispensable guide to the National...
Joyce Glasser reviews Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers (November 6, 2024) Cert. 12A, 89 mins The latest Exhibition on Screen film takes you around London’s National Gallery’s blockbuster show that focuses...
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This beautiful gynocentric film shows there’s life beyond Bollywood in Indian...
Joyce Glasser reviews All We Imagine As Light (November 29, 2024) Cert 15, 117mins. It is little surprise that after immersing us in an unfamiliar cinematic world, where an almost documentary realism...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Nobodaddy at Sadler’s Wells...
Nobodaddy, choreographed by Michael Keegan-Dolan, is a large-scale dance-theatre ritual inspired by William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence and performed by Teaċ Daṁsa. Teaċ Daṁsa is an Irish company of...
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Edward Berger returns to defend his Oscar wins with this devilishly...
Joyce Glasser reviews Conclave (November 29, 2024), Cert 12A, 120 mins. In cinemas. Edward Berger won a pile of Oscars last year for his adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front. There is nothing...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at Orange Tree Theatre,...
If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. On a round mirrored floor stands a baby grand piano and it remains there,...
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A traditional Christmas movie told in an unconventional and, often...
Joyce Glasser reviews Christmas Eve at Miller’s Point (November 15, 2024) Cert 12A, 107 mins. Christmas films come in all genres, but what you wouldn’t expect is a film that does what it says on the...
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Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s The Pirates of Penzance at London Coliseum.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance premiered in New York in 1879 and has been one of the most popular Savoy Operas ever since. Sullivan thought the score infinitely superior to HMS...
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