Friday, May 24, 2013
The room is dominated by a four-poster bed. Its velvet covering glows richly red under the light. In a few moments a young man will be interrupted by his sister, 19-year-old Anne Boleyn.
Linked From The Independent at 02:55PMThe Sherlock Holmes franchise has been assiduously exploited on the written page, on stage, cinema and TV ever since A Study in Scarlet announced the arrival of the world’s greatest detect…
Linked From The Independent at 07:48AMThursday, May 23, 2013
When The History Boys was first performed at the National Theatre in 2004 the reverential cupping of a sixth former's genitals by an appreciative retirement-age teacher was enough to elicit …
Linked From The Independent at 09:28AMShameless star David Threlfall has landed a role as the late comic Tommy Cooper - just like that.
Linked From The Independent at 08:27AMThe only sin Scout Finch, the eight-year-old narrator of Harper Lee’s classic novel, has ever heard her lawyer father denounce was to kill a mockingbird; they do nothing but make music for…
Linked From The Independent at 06:25AMIt was always going to be a tall order bringing Khaled Hosseini’s mega-selling 2003 novel about friendship, betrayal and exile to the stage.
Linked From The Independent at 06:25AMAmy Herzog's play has travelled, well, nearly 4,000 miles: it premièred in New York in 2011 – winning its young author an Obie – while in the UK it opened at the Ustinov Studio in Bath,…
Linked From The Independent at 06:25AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Audrey Niffenegger, author of the bestselling The Time-Traveler's Wife, has never felt that she was cut out for ballet. "I'm five foot nine, I'm not the most athletic person by any stretch o…
Linked From The Independent at 02:46PMOne of the main attractions of this year’s Brighton Festival is a night-time traipse around Preston Manor, a gorgeous historic house in the suburbs which was bequeathed to the city by the …
Linked From The Independent at 06:37AMTable Manners is a triple bill inspired by that most genteel of gatherings: the dinner party. But this is no cosy, bring-a-bottle, one-pot-on-the-scrubbed-kitchen-table affair. Rather it is …
Linked From The Independent at 06:37AMSome stars become famous far beyond their own fields. You don't need to be interested in running to know about Usain Bolt; you don’t need to be interested in dance to have heard of French …
Linked From The Independent at 05:36AMMonday, May 20, 2013
Amonth of ups and downs with difficulties throughout the production stable. Classic FM turned us into the operatic version of the Sex Pistols by banning us from the station; well, not so muc…
Linked From The Independent at 07:27PMHollywood imports are no longer required to make a buzz on the West End stage, the head of the Donmar Warehouse said, after unveiling a new Autumn season starring Tom Hiddleston and Jessica …
Linked From The Independent at 08:19AMWhen Umbrellas, a lost sketch written by Harold Pinter for a revue at Nottingham Playhouse in 1960, resurfaced two years ago, it sent Giles Croft, the theatre’s artistic director, scurryin…
Linked From The Independent at 07:41AMThe French ballerina Sylvie Guillem is one of dance's biggest stars, known for her headstrong charisma and the extreme lines of her long, elegant limbs.
Linked From The Independent at 07:41AMIt has become the fashion to make musicals out of apparently untouchable subjects. The Ipswich murders in London Road, female genital mutilation in Book of Mormon and now, Mess, which makes …
Linked From The Independent at 07:41AMSimon Russell Beale transforms into a manic version of Ronnie Barker in this merciless, very funny revival of Harold Pinter's second major stage play.
Linked From The Independent at 07:40AMIn the popular imagination, clean living and Scandinavia are firmly associated. The former goes with the latter's terrain, the snow-capped peaks, the mountain lakes. In the 1980s, Norway was…
Linked From The Independent at 07:40AMYou can't fault Northern Ballet for timing, as its new stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby drops on London the same week as Baz Luhrmann's film remake is shown in Cannes. The first night ev…
Linked From The Independent at 07:40AMWhen Dominic Cooke took over at the Royal Court, he said he wanted to stage more plays about “what it means to be middle class”. Now, as the reins of artistic director pass to Vicky Feat…
Linked From The Independent at 07:40AMIbsen’s timeless story of corruption, pollution and courage is revived in David Harrower’s powerful new version at London’s Young Vic theatre.
Linked From The Independent at 07:40AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
The new Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, north London, is a spanking new five-star neighbourhood theatre opening with a three-star play about girls in a 1920s Chicago watch-making factory who …
Linked From The Independent at 06:23PMStars were gripped by Great Gatsby-mania last night as they flocked to the London premiere of a new ballet based on the in vogue Jazz Age tale.
Linked From The Independent at 05:11AMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Thomas Eccleshare’s first play won the 2011 Verity Bargate award, so named in honour of the Soho’s founding co-director, and it arrives in London from a season at the High Tide Festival …
Linked From The Independent at 07:50AMA tale of corruption, greed and the responsibility of the press, states the Young Vic's publicity, and you can't say fairer than that. Ibsen's perennially pertinent dissection of spa town fa…
Linked From The Independent at 05:46AMNo play currently in London has made a more powerful impact than Mies Julie. But as the production was being bedecked with five-star reviews for supercharging Strindberg's 19th-century drama…
Linked From The Independent at 04:44AMMonday, May 13, 2013
No play currently in London has made a more powerful impact than Mies Julie. But as the production was being bedecked with five-star reviews for supercharging Strindberg's 19th-century drama…
Linked From The Independent at 02:30PMThe Suffolk town of Halesworth might look idyllic but don’t be fooled, there’s darkness lurking behind the half-timbered facades. This year’s High Tide festival of new writing tackles …
Linked From The Independent at 09:29AMAs a study in the personal trials and tribulations of life in the office, John Van Druten’s 1931 play is a little closer in style and banality to Ricky Gervais than to the advertising agen…
Linked From The Independent at 05:24AMDaniel Kitson’s new show is a reflection on reality, memory and our sense of self. Hardly wall-to-wall giggles, you might think, but this publicity-shy, TV-shunning, Perrier Award-winning …
Linked From The Independent at 05:24AMSaturday, May 11, 2013
We used to have angels on our shoulders, according to the old morality plays. There would be a bad one whispering devilish suggestions in our left ear while a good one – on the right side …
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