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Kenneth Tynan

August 2023

  • Attachment: The Leech Show at Greenside @ Infirmary St, Edinburgh.

    Leech or saviour? Edinburgh fringe show spotlights theatre’s vexed relationship with critics

    Attachment: The Leech Show is a merry romp about an influential reviewer and sums up the industry’s paradoxical attitude to theatre criticism

March 2023

  • Various<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Martyn Goddard/REX/Shutterstock (1302192a) Elizabeth Jane Howard and Kingsley Amis at home in London, Britain Various

    Book of the day
    Lives of the Wives by Carmela Ciuraru review – literary couples a breed apart

    The author raids memoirs and letters but adds little of her own in this juicy group biography of writers’ marriages

March 2017

  • ‘Not exactly traditional’ … Tracy Tynan with her father, Kenneth.

    Wear and Tear by Tracy Tynan review – trapped in a parental horror film

  • ‘Clothes dress up a stark narrative’: the author with her father, the Observer’s former theatre critic, in the 1950s.

    Book of the day
    Wear and Tear: The Threads of My Life by Tracy Tynan – review

February 2017

  • Tom Stoppard

    Tom Stoppard: Brexit is too big for the stage

    As Daniel Radcliffe appears in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Tom Stoppard remembers the dandy who wrote it 50 years ago, picks his favourite play – and reveals why he’s less interested in dazzling audiences than making them cry

December 2016

  • The Observer offices in 1964.

    The Observer at 225
    ‘You feel the history at the Observer as soon as you start to write or edit’

  • Kenneth Tynan

    The Observer at 225
    ‘Kenneth Tynan brilliantly achieved an intellectual slum-clearance of the stage’

October 2016

  • Steven Berkoff in his adaption of Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

    Theatre in the Roundhouse: Berkoff, Warhol and an age of experimentation – in pictures

    London’s Roundhouse is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Revisit some of the theatre that was staged in its first wave of activity, from the late 1960s to the early 80s

May 2016

  • Anthony Burgess in 1992.

    The Observer/Burgess prize for arts journalism 2017 – call for entries

    The prestigious award will mark the centenary next year of the great literary maverick who wrote 400 pieces for the Observer

November 2014

  • Renée Asherson in the 1944 film Henry V with Laurence Olivier.

    Renée Asherson obituary

    Versatile actor who combined grace with gravity in her many roles over 65 years

August 2014

  • Oh! Calcutta!

    A look back
    From the Observer archive, 16 August 1970: nude revue show greeted with polite chuckling

  • Manfred Wekwerth

    Manfred Wekwerth obituary

July 2014

  • Margot

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 28 July 1970: Oh! Calcutta! - review

    Originally published in the Guardian on 28 July 1970: Philip Hope-Wallace casts a critical eye over Kenneth Tynan's full-frontal nude revue show at London's Roundhouse

March 2014

  • Wanamaker Bartok The Lovers

    Kenneth Tynan at the Observer
    Kenneth Tynan on Sam Wanamaker – 'a director of the new school twists the arm of an old melodrama'

    In this extract originally published on 8 May 1955, the stage version of Zola's Thérèse Raquin, directed by Sam Wanamaker, fails to arouse the Observer theatre critic's passion

  • Ivor Novello

    Books blog
    Their type? The writers who fell for film stars

    John Dudgale: From Siegfried Sassoon and Ivor Novello to Gore Vidal and Fred Astaire, a surprisingly large number of writers have paired off with film stars
  • Frank Wedekind

    Kenneth Tynan at the Observer
    Kenneth Tynan on Spring Awakening: the sexual revolution's canny precursor

    In this extract originally published in the Observer on 12 May 1963, Tynan applauds the play's sexual frankness – sorely needed given the circumstances of the production

February 2014

  • Dylan Thomas in a BBC recording studio.

    Kenneth Tynan at the Observer
    Kenneth Tynan on Under Milk Wood: a true comedy of humours

    In this extract originally published in the Observer on 26 August 1956, Kenneth Tynan finds the first stage adaptation of Dylan Thomas's drama as gripping as it is uneventful

  • Noel Coward

    Kenneth Tynan at the Observer
    Kenneth Tynan on demolishing Noël Coward – and then dining with him

    In this extract originally published in the Observer on 1 April 1973 following Coward's death, Kenneth Tynan remembers a chance encounter with the playwright

  • VARIOUS

    Kenneth Tynan at the Observer
    Kenneth Tynan on Terence Rattigan's Variation on a Theme

    In this extract, originally published in the Observer on 11 May 1958, the critic muses on the loss of Terence Rattigan's inspiration

January 2014

  • Rehearsal for the musical Oh What a Lovely War in 1963

    Kenneth Tynan at the Observer
    Kenneth Tynan on Joan Littlewood and Oh! What a Lovely War

    In this review, originally published in the Observer on 24 March 1963, Kenneth Tynan finds the first world war musical to be a one-woman show
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