Monday, March 25, 2024
Irish actor awarded prize for playing every role in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, following his win at Critics’ Circle film awards
Andrew Scott has been named best actor at the Critics’ Circl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMThursday, March 21, 2024
Tony and BAFTA Award-winner Ralph Fiennes (Antony & Cleopatra, Schindler's List, Coriolanus) and Olivier Award-winner Indira Varma (Present Laughter, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luther) star in this…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMFriday, January 19, 2024
The Old Vic has announced the world premiere of Ella Hickson’s Oedipus, starring Academy Award winner Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody, No Time To Die) and Olivier Award winner Indira V…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03AMMonday, December 11, 2023
Tony winner Harriet Sansom Harris is reuniting with her Thoroughly Modern Millie co-star Sutton Foster in the Encores! presentation of Once Upon a Mattress. She will play the comically …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:02PMMonday, November 20, 2023
Andrew Scott, Nicole Scherzinger and writer Jack Thorne were among the winners at last night’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards in London. Scott’s performance in Vanya landed him a second…
SOURCE: Deadline at 04:48AMSaturday, June 10, 2023
June 10, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
Between 41st and 66th streets there are forty-two legit Broadway theatres (this includes the Palace, currently under renovation an…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:59PMTuesday, March 21, 2023
He presented himself as a message-free entertainer but, 50 years after his death, it is time to reconsider the variety of the great playwright’s work
Anniversaries offer a chance for reapp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:17AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
Read Kim Jackson's review of Switchyard Theatre Company's production of PRESENT LAUGHTER.
The post Entanglements of PRESENT LAUGHTER is Entertaining Enough appeared first on Beltline to Broa…
SOURCE: Beltline to Broadway at 02:47PMWednesday, October 5, 2022
The writer-actor's works include Present Laughter, Private Lives, and Blithe Spirit.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:33AMSunday, December 19, 2021
Hampstead theatre, LondonAlan Plater’s 60s-set play honouring agent Peggy Ramsay hasn’t aged well – her once maverick ideas now look outmoded
Henry Livings felt that “all plays abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMTuesday, August 3, 2021
Casting is set for the world premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s Letters of Suresh, which serves a companion piece to Joseph’s Animals Out of Paper that bowed at Second Stage in 2008. The off-Br…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:42PMTuesday, June 15, 2021
The Gone Girl alum's Broadway credits included Rumors and Present Laughter.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMMonday, April 19, 2021
On his centenary, the veteran producer recalls adding punch to Coronation Street, bringing Brideshead to the screen and his ‘turbulent’ relationship with one of the acting world’s grea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMMonday, April 12, 2021
Today's episode features Kate Burton- best known for her Tony nominated work on Broadway (where she last appeared in Present Laughter with Kevin Kline) and for her Emmy nominated work in Gre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:14PMTuesday, March 16, 2021
Indira Varma wins Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Present Laughter (The Old Vic) at Olivier Awards 2020 with Mastercard. #OlivierAwards #LondonTheatre
Official London Theatre is th…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:00PMSaturday, February 20, 2021
Monday, November 9, 2020
Olivier winner Andrew Scott and Tony nominee Ruth Wilson will lead the upcoming film adaptation of J.T. Rogers' Oslo, according to Deadline. The previously announced movie was written by Rog…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:18PMSunday, October 25, 2020
A celebrated group of productions and stars were honored for their work on the London stage at the 2020 Olivier Awards, which took place on October 25. Hosted by Jason Manford, the ceremony …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:54PMSaturday, September 12, 2020
The actor on Tove Jansson’s adult fiction, eclectic French radio and Gordon Parks’s groundbreaking photography
Indira Varma grew up in Bath and graduated from Rada in 1995. Perhaps best …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMTuesday, September 8, 2020
Judi Dench joins cast of A Marvellous Party to mark Coward’s 1920 playwriting debut and raise money for performers’ charities, while Emma Thompson features in Zoom reading of Private Liv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMThursday, August 13, 2020
By: David Sheward
August 13, 2020: The intimate environs of cabaret will probably be the last aspect of the entertainment industry to return to normal in this COVID world. Patrons squee…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:09PMFriday, August 7, 2020
Kevin Kline won a Tony Award for his performance in this Noël Coward classic. Watch it for free through August 29.
The post Watch: Kevin Kline in ‘Present Laughter’ appeared first on T…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:32PMThursday, August 6, 2020
Earlier this week, we continued our Best of the Decade series with the first twelve Up and Comers of Broadway who came to our attention over the past ten seasons. Today, we give you the ot…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 03:42PMFriday, July 31, 2020
In today’s Wall Street Journal drama column I review the PBS webcast of the 2016 Broadway revival of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter. Here’s an excerpt.
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PBS has telecast do…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:02AMThe broadcast is part of Great Performances' Broadway at Home series, which also includes The King and I and Much Ado About Nothing.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 30, 2020
Ahead of PBS’ July 31 Great Performances presentation during the Broadway at Home series, look back at the Tony Award–nominated production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PMMonday, July 20, 2020
New production with Fleabag and Sherlock actor will be performed to an empty auditorium, directed by Matthew Warchus
One year on from his award-winning run in Noël Coward’s Present Laught…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMMonday, July 13, 2020
Good news for theater lovers stuck at home this summer! In the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, PBS has announced the lineup for its new summer Great Performances series, Broadway at H…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:48PMThursday, July 9, 2020
As part of their Broadway At Home series, Great Performances will keep the theatrical spirit alive by broadcasting a theatre favorite every week on PBS, beginning on Friday, July 24 with Sh…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 02:46PMSaturday, May 23, 2020
by Carol Rocamora There isn’t much laughter present these days – is there? All the more reason, then, to thank PBS’s Great Performances Series for streaming Present Laughter, Noe…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:16AMThursday, May 14, 2020
Fresh off of bingeing Fleabag in quarantine, but can't get enough of Andrew Scott? Before he portrayed the "hot priest" in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Emmy-winning Amazon series, Tony-winning scr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42PMWednesday, April 8, 2020
Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently.
PBS' Thirteen Offering Access to Great Performances
Here's another item to add to your quarantine watch list. The PBS chan…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:12PMTuesday, April 7, 2020
Pass the time with some free-to-stream programming and resources available from WNET for audiences of all ages.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:27PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
TV co-stars compete for acting prizes at this year’s theatre awards, whose nominations are led by the musicals & Juliet, Fiddler on the Roof and Dear Evan Hansen
Fleabag stars Phoebe W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMFriday, January 3, 2020
A new stage play about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will make its world premiere later this month at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater. Bill McMahon penned the new work, titled The Ad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMWednesday, December 18, 2019
Andrew Scott was spellbinding in Present Laughter, Life of Pi stunned Sheffield and Tao of Glass was a tour de force
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMMonday, December 2, 2019
Adrienne Campbell-Holt directs the romantic comedy by David Glass.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMTuesday, November 26, 2019
Andrew Scott was awarded for his role in Noel Coward’s Present Laughter at the Old Vic, while Maggie Smith took the trophy for one-woman play A German Life at the Bridge. Lynn Nottage’…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PMMonday, November 25, 2019
Present Laughter’s Andrew Scott and A German Life’s Maggie Smith took home the top acting prizes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:57AMSunday, November 24, 2019
The 65th Annual Evening Standard Awards were announced on November 24 at the London Coliseum. The annual event honoring London theater was co-hosted by Damian Lewis, Helen McCrory, Evgeny …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:07PM