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If the documentary is not worthy of the exquisite filmmaking on show in the...
Joyce Glasser reviews Merchant Ivory (December 6, 2024) Cert 12A, 111 minutes – in cinemas Stephen Soucy’s documentary Merchant Ivory is a basic and comprehensive, if uninspired portrait of the...
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The UK’s first exhibition of this 20th century Italian artist documents his...
Joyce Glasser reviews Antonio Calderara: A Certain Light (until December 22, 2024) at the Estorick Collection, London N1 2AN Looking at his deceptively picturesque town and landscapes from the 1920s...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The Devil Wears Prada at Dominion Theatre, London
Lauren Weisberger, hoping to become a writer, got a job of assistant to Anna Wintour, who was then editor-in-chief of American Vogue and the most powerful woman in publishing. The job (“a million...
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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK – DONCASTER CAST – DEC 6TH 2024
Our tale unfolds in Donnyville, bygone village of quaintly painted back-cloths, colourful cut-outs, oldie-world costumes and glittery bits, all full of warm traditional panto charm. And Donnyville has...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The Producers at Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre,...
Mel Brooks, a past-master at bad taste and political incorrectness, is famous for two American cult films, Blazing Saddles, a wonderful spoof on Westerns, and The Producers, a wonderful spoof on...
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A Zambian clan gather for a disturbing, surreal funeral. Bring on the guinea...
Joyce Glasser reviews On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (December 6, 2024) Cert. TBC, 95 mins. In cinemas On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is an impressive second feature from writer-director Rungano Nyoni. Her...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake at Sadler’s Wells Theatre,...
30 years on, its erotic impact is undiminished. In 1995 Matthew Bourne took a traditional ballet and its classical score and made it contemporary. Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake is a landmark in English...
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As the world awaits news of the next 007, this cradle-to-grave profile of...
Joyce Glasser reviews From Roger Moore with Love (December 13, 2024) Cert 12A. 80 mins. (In cinemas) Note: The film will screen exclusively across Everyman and Picturehouse cinemas on 15th and 18th...
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS – THE CRUCIBLE, SHEFFIELD – Dec 12th 2024
Christmas at The Crucible this year is spent at a Little Shop of Horrors that sits at the back of the stage, ready to sell us a horror rock-musical in Rocky Horror vein, full of comic fun and...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 at Donmar...
The music, the lyrics, the book and the orchestrations are all by Dave Malloy. The book is based on 70 pages in Leo Tolstoy’s massive War and Peace, which he first read when he was 30 and thought a...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes at Young Vic, London
Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, a modern American classic, starring Tallulah Bankhead, premiered with great success in 1939 and went on to be filmed in 1941 with Bette Davis. It is regularly...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Theatre Royal Drury Lane,...
I have seen more bad productions of The Tempest than good ones. Ironically, the best productions were in Russian (directed by Declan Donnellan), in Japanese (directed by Yukio Ninagawa) and on film...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love at Hampstead...
Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love, which premiered 27 years ago at the National Theatre, has two themes: the love of classical poetry and the love that dare not speak its name. Stoppard has said...
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Robert Tanitch reviews English National Ballet in Mary Skeaping’s Giselle at...
Giselle, the greatest of all ballets of the Romantic era, and one of the definitive statements on heartbreak, was conceived by Theophile Gautier as a showcase for the great Carlotta Grisi and...
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TRAVEL WRITER NIGEL HEATH’S NEW YEAR GALAPAGOS SNAPSHOT
This was a spectacle I had never viewed before in all my years of travel, namely the administering of oxygen to several of my fellow passengers after we had emerged onto the Arrivals concourse at...
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Don’t expect Marvel comic characters, or any Sci-fi in this mesmeric film...
Joyce Glasser reviews The Universal Theory (December 13, 2024) Cert 15, 118 mins. In cinemas If you are not a theoretical physicist, your connection to the multiverse might be via video games or...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s Kyoto @sohoplace, London
International diplomats, representing 192 countries, met in Kyoto in 1997 to negotiate a treaty to curb carbon emissions and slow down the disastrous effects of climate change. Joe Murphy and Joe...
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LOVE LIFE at LEEDS GRAND January 16th 2025
It’s Weill for Opera North in 2025, and it’s delightful. With a stunning flow of musical gems, Love Life was composed in 1947 by Threepenny Opera/Mack the Knife man Kurt Weill with Alan Jay Lerner (of...
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Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield are the draw in this terminal illness...
Joyce Glasser reviews We Live in Time (January 1, 2025) Cert. 15, 107 mins. In Cinemas The romantic comedy’s dominance was challenged after the success of Love Story in 1970 with an increasing number...
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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...
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