With its kooky look at the characters drawn to California's movie gold rush, Once in a Lifetime took a comic swipe at the coincidental, accidental happenings that turned opportunists into ci…
Young Vic, London… but the star turns are elsewhere in this thin adaptation of the 1930 satire on the Hollywood talkiesOnce in a Lifetime? That's about right. Twice is pushing it. Moss Har…
Harry Enfield makes his theatre debut in Richard Jones’s production – but what have critics been saying about it? The Guardian: *** “Enfield gives us a shuffling olds…
The era of silent cinema will seem to many as remote as the last days of the Roman Empire. It is difficult, therefore, to imagine the revolution the "talkies" would have sparked in the Holly…
Young Vic, LondonPlaying a studio mogul at the dawn of the talkies, Enfield makes an assured theatre debut but this production puts visual bravura before verbal precisionHarry Enfield, as we…
The comedian Enfield makes his stage debut in this classic Broadway comedy, directed by Richard Jones, which is set during the momentous advent of the talkies
Moving pictures and crisp talk as Richard Jones tackles a Broadway comedyAn amplified crunch in the dark, sound without vision, kicks off this take on Moss Hart and George S Kaufman's light …
After a 2016 programme that included BlueOrange and Yerma, the first offering in the Young Vic's new season is a revival of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's Once in a Lifetime, which also m…
HURRAH FOR HOLLYWOOD, AND LONG LIVE FOOLS 'Tis the season to be silly, and the Young Vic's revival of a screwball 1930's Hollywood satire hit the spot triumphantly with this theatre's…
The end of the silent movie era and the arrival of the talkies has proved fertile ground for many a storyteller, not least Betty Comden and Adolph Green's immortal Singin' in the Rain, but M…
"It's a complicated business, is love." Enda Walsh's critically-acclaimed, Tony Award-winning musical “Once” tells the story of a Guy (Sam Cieri) and a Girl (Mackenzie Lesser-Roy…
From the moment one enters the National Theatre, it becomes clear that Once is not your typical Broadway fare. Rather than seeing closed drapes and hearing piped-in pre-show music, the first…
This past weekend, The Kennedy Center opened a newly commissioned show for young audiences from Playwright, Finegan Kruckemeyer. The piece titled, Where Words Once Were, touches on the of…
Language is a playground. Structures and agreed-upon rules are there to be bent and broken, juxtaposed and toyed with. The Kennedy Center's latest commission, Where Words Once Were, posits a…
As she takes on three Shakespeare plays set in a women's prison, the actor reflects on her own time behind barsJennifer Joseph, 48, is currently appearing in the all-female production of the…
