News
LIVING – The Crucible's Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse – March 19th 2026
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (1041+ words) How might you feel if you sat down for the 1969 moon landing and then had 55 years of life flash before your eyes in just three hours (with a 20-minute breather in 2005?) Ecstatically nostalgic, uplifted, exhilarated, overwhelmed, amazed, bewildered, pummelled and…...
A CHRISTMAS CAROL The Crucible, Sheffield Dec 4th 2025
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1114+ words) Ever popular at Christmastime (and as a GCSE text) is the thoroughly uplifting, so, so familiar story of greedy, grasping, cold-hearted Scrooge and his sudden, spirited overnight transformation into the utmost of joyful, generous, caring souls. Adapted by Aisha Khan,…...
Robert Tanitch reviews Jean Genet’s The Maids at Donmar Warehouse, London.
5+ mon, 3+ hour ago (345+ words) Jean Genet (1910-1986), delinquent, thief, poet, novelist, playwright, political activist, spent much of his early life in reformatories and prison. He briefly joined the Foreign Legion only to be dishonourably discharged. His works were controversial for their explicit and often deliberately…...
CONSUMED – TANYA MOISEIWITSCH PLAYHOUSE at THE CRUCIBLE, SHEFFIELD – Oct 9th 2025
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (1112+ words) Karis Kelly's Consumed packs a punch, no doubt about it. Indeed, throughout its 70 gripping, gruelling minutes of mayhem four madly sparring women pummel the audience relentlessly with their super-charged intensity. It's manic and alarming; it's cruel, chaotic and comical; it's…...
Robert Tanitch reviews Tracy Letts’s Mary Page Marlowe at The Old Vic, London.
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (365+ words) Mary Page Marlowe premiered in Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in 2016 and opened Off-Broadway in 2018. American playwright Tracy Letts is probably best known to theatregoers and filmgoers as the author of August Osage County. The production at The Old Vic is directed…...
It might be conventional, but this enlightening biopic of Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson is enthralling.
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (721+ words) Joyce Glasser reviews I Swear (October 10), cert 15, 121 mins. Have you ever been in a large gathering where everyone is being respectfully silent and felt the urge to blurt out something? Maybe even something rude? What stops you from giving in…...
Ophelia Kolb captivates the audience in this troubling portrait of a feisty single mother who loves her children but not the restrictions and responsibility of motherhood.
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (736+ words) Joyce Glasser reviews The Courageous (September 5, 2025) cert 12A, 85 mins. When we first meet Jule she is driving her children, Claire (10), Lo'c (8), who is unofficially diagnosed with Aspergers, and Sami (6) somewhere, but we do not know her destination. She stops at a…...
Make Liam Neeson happy: Leave your dignity and intellect at home and fill the cinema with laughter.
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (399+ words) Joyce Glasser reviews The Naked Gun (August 1, 2025) Cert 15, 85 mins. But first Liam Neeson fills the entire Imax screen with gravitas in a plea for us to help save cinema and the at-risk comedy genre. It's gravitas the man cast as…...
THE LAST LAUGH – SHEFFIELD LYCEUM – July 1st 2025
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (203+ words) Full of joyous, carefree laughter, full of heart, spirit and shining brilliance, this show is a terrific tonic for the soul " assuming you know and love, that is, those three evergreen giants of comedy, Eric Morecambe (1926-1984), Tommy Cooper (1921-1984) and Bob…...
Robert Tanitch reviews Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel at Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (278+ words) American playwright Lynn Nottage has won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the first black woman to do.so. Intimate Apparel, written in 2003, went on to become one of the most performed plays in America. Nobody, watching this…...