The nominations for the Olivier Awards 2016 with MasterCard, were announced today by Michael Ball andImelda Staunton at Rosewood London, the awards official hotel partner. The awards, which this year celebrate their 40th anniversary, will take place on Sunday 3 April at the Royal Opera House. Here the full list. Best revival Hamlet at the…
The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company has announced the full cast for Romeo and Juliet which will play at the Garrick Theatre from 12 May until 13 August. The production will be broadcast live to cinemas on 7 July. Reuniting the stars of his celebrated film Cinderella, Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford will direct Shakespeareʼs heartbreaking tale…
The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company has announced the full cast for Romeo and Juliet which will play at the Garrick Theatre from 12 May until 13 August. The production will be broadcast live to cinemas on 7 July. Reuniting the stars of his celebrated film Cinderella, Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford will direct Shakespeareʼs heartbreaking tale…
When it premiered in 1960, The Caretaker changed the face of modern theatre. Now Harold Pinter’s groundbreaking classic comes to The Old Vic in a new production directed by Matthew Warchus. Disturbed handyman Aston has invited an irascible tramp to stay with him at his brother’s jumbled London flat. At first it seems that the manipulative…
When it premiered in 1960, The Caretaker changed the face of modern theatre. Now Harold Pinter’s groundbreaking classic comes to The Old Vic in a new production directed by Matthew Warchus. Disturbed handyman Aston has invited an irascible tramp to stay with him at his brother’s jumbled London flat. At first it seems that the manipulative…
Roger Mortimer was born in 1909, went to Eton, joined the Coldstream Guards, was a prisoner of war and became a correspondent for The Sunday Times. His son Charlie was nicknamed by him as Lupin (probably after Mr Pooter’s useless son in The Diary Of a Nobody). Dear Lupin is a great dramatization by Michael…
It’s hard to find words good enough to describe a such marvellous play; so please, be kind with us because this review will be a really hard job. The Elephant Man at the Royal Haymarket Theatre it’s, for sure, one of the most emotional play of the season. We are not here to link this…
Amazon is getting crazy; in a week, in the Uk shop there are just 3 copies left of the book My Passion for Design by former Broadway star Barbra (please is Barb-ra without the middle A) Streisand. And it’s all Michael Urie fault. Because Buyer and Cellar it’s so great and funny you can’t go…
Do you remember when in 2002, The Imitation Game star Keira Knightley put on a pair of football shoes to star alongside the Londoner heartthrob Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the kick ass girl who loved soccer in Bend it like Beckham? Well now the movie it’s being turned into a play but on stage, as the swoon worthy coach Joe, instead Mr. Tudor Jonathan…
Broadway has been abuzz with Bradley Cooper as John Merrick, a man so physically deformed who was called The Elephant Man. Written by Bernard Pomerance, the play enjoyed a great 14 weeks run in New York at Booth Theatre from November 2014. The great news is that discussing the play on the Jimmy Fallow Show, Mr Cooper, said: ” We’re going to do it til 22…
From the book to the theater. From the book to the screen. From the theater to the screen. These are adaptations to which we have become accustomed over the years. Many say it’s because the scriptwriters are now devoid of imagination; in a society in which the role of culture is bound to suffering and…
Turning a novel into a play is always something difficult and complicated. It is even more so when you have to adapt a novel set during the intrigue of the Tudor court of Henry VIII through the political intelligence of Thomas Cromwell. But Mike Poulton as adaptor and Jeremy Herrin as director have done a…
The project Read Not Dead was founded in 1995 with the intent to bring to light surviving plays produced between 1567 and 1642. A wonderful opportunity to spend the Sunday afternoon in company of great plays and a stunning cast because, not everyone can get a script at 10 am in the morning and be…
Transported in the atmosphere of a Victorian theater by a charismatic theater director (Fenton Gray), the intimacy of Riverside Studios gives the audience the opportunity to get carried away in time and space. The beautiful song of a dying Juliet (Alma Fournier-Carballo) is like the siren call that catch us taking us, with a presentation that…
How lovely is a Christmas Eve family reunion? The kids, actually not kids anymore come back home, presents are by the tree, it’s time for a homemade dinner…Well, not at the Wyeth. In the reconfigured Old Vic, reprising the CQS in-the-round space that was first created there in 2008, Other Desert Cities tells about a Palm…
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