Friday, January 4, 2013
Do you hear the people sing? Loud and clear! Powerful performances overcome some directorial issues by Stuart MunroI think it’s safe to say Les Misérables is one of the most anticipated m…
Linked From The Charlebois Post at 12:27AMSaturday, December 29, 2012
It’s no surprise that film critics are pooh-poohing the new
movie version of Alain
Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s pop opera Les Misérables. Just as it’s no surprise that…
Linked From Broadway & Me at 01:00PMMonday, September 24, 2012
Les Misérables is the motion-picture adaptation of the beloved global stage sensation seen by more than 60 million people in 42 countries and in 21 languages around the globe and still brea…
Linked From The Broadway Critic Blog at 08:59PMThursday, September 20, 2012
“Les Miserables,” the adaptation of the hugely popular musical from Tom Hooper, director of the recent Academy Award winning film “The King’s Speech,” has taken a daring ap…
Linked From Theater Advisor at 04:09PMTuesday, April 24, 2012
The King’s Speech my be stuttering to an early close in the West End, but there’s still room for the Queen’s English to be heard in serious plays and not just sung in musicals there. J…
Linked From The Stage at 03:53PMFriday, April 20, 2012
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Linked From New York Magazine at 01:01PMThe West End production of The King’s Speech, currently playing at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre, will close on May 12. Written by David Seidler who also wrote the Oscar-winni…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:44AMWednesday, April 4, 2012
The King’s Speech, currently playing at the Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End, is offering AYT readers discounted tickets to see the show. Normally £52.50, you can get tickets f…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 09:50AMMonday, April 2, 2012
For a play about not very much, The King’s Speech is strangely compelling. There can’t be many people who haven’t seen the hugely successful film, but it’s worth noti…
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 08:01AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
Little more than a year since The King’s Speech hit pay dirt at the Oscars, David Seidler’s tale of a prince stuttering between duty and impediment takes to the stage. Rather than a spee…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 05:52AMThursday, March 1, 2012
The play opens with the future king naked before a mirror which reflects him back in ostentatious ceremonial garb: “I look like a bloody Christmas tree.” This is Bertie (Charles …
Linked From A Younger Theatre at 12:05PMWednesday, February 29, 2012
Baltimore native Wallis Simpson, who famously took on the title Duchess of Windsor when King Edward VIII abdicated the throne for her in 1936, has been a muse for many. The Oscar-winning The…
Linked From citypaper.com at 08:28AMMonday, February 20, 2012
The play that inspired the movie finally receives its first staging in this extravagantly cast production, writes Ian Shuttleworth
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 10:07AMFriday, February 17, 2012
The London touring production of The King’s Speech, written by Oscar-winning screenwriter David Seidler, will transfer to the West End's Wyndham’s Theatre this spring. The pr…
Linked From Broadway.com at 10:24AMThursday, February 16, 2012
“The King’s Speech,” the film that picked up the 2010 Academy Award for Best Picture, has been adapted into a play that currently is touring England and will likely transfer to West En…
Linked From broadwaytour.net at 02:33PMFriday, February 10, 2012
George VI had been my hero since childhood because I was such a terrible stutterer. We had been evacuated from England to the US and during the war, particularly the latter stages, my parent…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 08:13PMTuesday, October 11, 2011
“The King’s Speech” is headed to Broadway. But readers of this column know I broke this story last year–that David Seidler wrote the script as a play, then converted …
Linked From ShowBiz 411 at 01:22AMFriday, October 7, 2011
The previously announced world premiere of the play The King's Speech, which served as the basis for the 2011 Oscar winner for Best Picture, will star Charles Edwards as George IV and Jo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:29AMMonday, August 22, 2011
Coming off of the recent news that ‘The King’s Speech’ will be making its Broadway debut in Fall 2012, two more films are getting a Broadway makeover. Harvey and Bob Weinstein are sear…
Linked From broadway.me at 11:07AMMonday, August 15, 2011
“If I am King, where is my power? Can I declare war? Form a government? Levy a tax? No! And yet I am the seat of all authority because they think that when I speak, I speak for them. But I…
Linked From broadway.me at 12:39AMMonday, August 8, 2011
The buzz surrounding Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech may appear to have finally died down, but now fresh rumours are swirling of a stage production. As we previously reported, David S…
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