Friday, September 17, 2021
At the height of Europe’s spring Covid wave in 2021, the filmmaker Lucy Darwin offered to drive the actor and national treasure Miriam Margolyes from her home in Italy to London so that sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMMonday, April 19, 2021
Playwright David Hare has written a new poem, Agony Uncle, about Boris Johnson's handling of the coronavirus crisis. Written in the tradition of 18th century satire, the poem castigates the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMSaturday, March 27, 2021
Idina Menzel in If/Then
(©Joan Marcus)
When a performer’s mere opening utterance of “Hello, it’s me” garners huge sustained applause, you know you’re in the presence of a star. …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:42AMMarin Mazzie in Bullets Over Broadway
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Imagine a splashy Broadway musical comedy based on a beloved film, written by its original creator who once toiled for Sid Caesar on Y…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:42AMDavid Cromer, Bryce Clyde Jenkins, LaYTanya Richardson Jackson,
Anika Noni Rose, Denzel Washington, and Sophie Okonedo
in A Raisin in the Sun
(©Brigitte Lacombe)
If director Kenny L…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:42AMJames Franco and Chris O'Dowd in Of Mice and Men
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John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a beloved classic that is a staple in high school reading lists and has been adap…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:42AMAudra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
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Audra McDonald doesn’t look or sound anything like Billie Holiday. So it’s a credit to the five-time Ton…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:42AMNeil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
(©Joan Marcus)
The colorful title character of Hedwig and the Angry Inch can be described as many things, but loveable is not usually one …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:42AMDaniel Radcliffe in The Cripple of Inishmaan
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His face may be prominently displayed on the Playbill cover and theater marquee, but Daniel Radcliffe melts seamlessly into …
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:42AMKenneth Branagh in Macbeth
(©Stephanie Berger)
It’s doubtful you’ll ever see as compelling and visceral a interpretation of Macbeth as the one being performed for much too brief a run…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 03:42AMThursday, December 17, 2020
Written by the Olivier award winner James Graham and produced by the Guardian in partnership with the National Theatre, this short musical film is a unifying song for the country to take …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMThursday, November 5, 2020
THIS YEAR MORE THAN EVER, THE PROJECT(S) MUST BE SEEN It’s a continuing crisis seen from the inside out, fleshed out with warmth and truth. In The Project(s), the late, great American Thea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:45PMThursday, June 25, 2020
JUST AS MAGICAL REMOTELY Is stuff magical only because it can’t be explained? Perhaps it’s more than just the absence of logic, probability, or reason. There’s a presence too: Magic ev…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:46PMSunday, July 14, 2019
THE PLAY ABOUT THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG GOES WRONG The title of this play is brutally honest — and you can’t say you weren’t warned. In the style of Monty Python and Michael Frayn’s …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:17PMThursday, November 22, 2018
The 28-year-old lead principal of the English National Ballet talks to the Guardian's Iman Amrani about his plans to make dance a human right in his home country of Mexico and elevate it as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMThursday, November 15, 2018
Jamael Westman, the lead actor in the West End production of Hamilton, talks to the Guardian's Iman Amrani backstage at the Victoria Palace Theatre, discussing the power of youth to make cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMMonday, June 26, 2017
‘There’s no coming back from this’ … After 43 years together, Helen is shocked that her husband is leaving Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM‘But if I don’t do this, what else can I do?’ … A Welsh dairy farmer reflects on the real cost of a flat white Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM‘People are petrified’ … An immigration lawyer in Manchester sees fear – and hope – in his community Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM‘I’m a warrior who’s been waiting for a war’ … Internet troll Carol whips up Brexit fury in Mansfield Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMWednesday, August 10, 2016
Stephen Moss learns the art of impersonation from two masters: Alistair McGowan and Rory Bremner. Will Moss impress his tutors with his Boris Johnson? Can he manage to stretch his words and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:14AMThursday, March 17, 2016
Dancers from all over the world compete in the international tour of Juste Debout in the hope that they will get the chance to battle in the preliminary rounds in France and perform at the f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:20AMTuesday, January 5, 2016
Actor Tobias Menzies analyses his reflection while looking down the lens of the camera and drawing his self-portrait on an iPad. Through this intimate process he reveals his thoughts about h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMMonday, July 8, 2013
In the ranking of sexy accents, the Scottish brogue has to be near the top. And in the ranking of sexy Scottish brogues, Alan Cumming's is definitely in the top five. But just how powerful a…
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:11PMSunday, February 24, 2013
Who Will Win? Who Should Win? And Why? The Academy Awards bring out the critic in everyone. It starts when the nominations are announced — "Whaddya mean, Ben Affleck wasn't nominated?…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMMonday, December 24, 2012
Maybe it’s because we live in a world where everybody’s connected, but this year has seen an explosion of “immersive” shows that blur the line between audience and performers. In som…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMWednesday, July 11, 2012
TWO CRITICS; TWO STAGED READINGS; BASICALLY ONE OPINION From Jason Rohrer: Plays in the Park, Brian Conners’ collection of one-acts (only one of which is set in a park), intends to sho…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:20AMMonday, April 4, 2011
As a Manhattan-born teenager at the High School of Art & Design on East 57th Street, I was star-struck. I would go to a Broadway show whenever I could afford it. I practically lived at t…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:24AM 
