Category: Alan Bennett

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Film Review: Allelujah (2022)

Alan Bennett’s 2018 play Allelujah gets a lavishly cast film adaptation but it’s still a headscratcher of…

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News: full cast announced for The Clothes They Stood Up In

Today, Nottingham Playhouse has announced the full casting for Adrian Scarborough’s adaptation of Alan Bennett’s comic novella…

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Round-up of March theatre news

Everyone loves a ghost story and audiences have really loved 2:22 – A Ghost Story as it…

Posted in Agatha Christie Alan Ayckbourn Alan Bennett Chichester Festival Theatre Christopher Shinn David Greig Mark Gatiss Musicals Not-London Stephen Beresford Steven Moffat Theatre

News: CFT’S 60th anniversary season announced

Full details of Chichester Festival Theatre’s Festival 2022 – their diamond anniversary year – have been announced by Artistic…

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My 10 favourite shows of 2021

Just a little bit late… Here’s 10 of my favourite shows, both online and onstage but fully…

Posted in Alan Bennett Menier Chocolate Factory Patrick Marber Theatre Theatre review

Review: Habeus Corpus, Menier Chocolate Factory

Alan Bennett’s Habeus Corpus gets a belated revival at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Stuck in the past,…

Posted in Alan Bennett Digital Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2021

Review: Still Life: Untold Stories of Nottingham Now

Julie Hesmondhalgh and Frances De La Tour, among others, star in the heartbreakingly excellent Still Life: Untold…

Posted in Alan Bennett James Graham Mark Gatiss News Not-London Nottingham Playhouse Theatre UK

News: Nottingham Playhouse reveals a Spring Loaded season of 23 events

Nottingham Playhouse has announced a season of live and digital productions that celebrate local stories and support…

Posted in Agatha Christie Alan Bennett Cabaret Musicals News Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch Theatre West End

An assortment of October theatre news

Full casting has been announced for Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch’s upcoming production of Misfits, an innovative new hybrid…