Tag: Adrian Lester

Posted in Donmar Warehouse Musicals Theatre Theatre review

Review: Sweet Charity, Donmar Warehouse

Nowhere near enough charm in this Sweet Charity for my liking. Josie Rourke’s farewell to the Donmar…

Posted in Music Musicals Stephen Sondheim Theatre YouTube

Someone to hold you too close – 10 takes on Being Alive to celebrate Company’s opening

My top 10 Losing My Minds post has been one of the most popular on the site…

Posted in James Graham National Theatre News Photos Theatre

News (and photos): National Theatre gala (plus actors in suits!)

The National Theatre last night hosted its biennial fundraising gala, Up Next, raising over a million pounds…

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare

Film Review: Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000)

“I feel so absolutely stumped on the floor” Proving that not even Kenneth Branagh is infallible when…

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare

Film Review: As You Like It (2006)

“We are not all alone unhappy” As the fifth of his big screen Shakespeare adaptations, there’s a…

Posted in August Wilson Christopher Hampton Cyndi Lauper Duncan Macmillan Florian Zeller Howard Goodall Jessica Swale Kenneth Branagh Lin-Manuel Miranda Mark Gatiss Martin McDonagh Olivier Awards Robert Icke Shakespeare Theatre Theatre awards

2016 Laurence Olivier Awards nominations

Best New Play  Farinelli and the King by Claire van Kampen – Duke of York’s Hangmen by…

Posted in Theatre West End

Review: Red Velvet, Garrick Theatre

“…now begrimed and black as mine own face” For all the excitement of Kenneth Branagh’s announcement of…

Posted in Digital Shakespeare

Shakespeare Solos – Part 1

“But I do think it is their husbands’ faults if wives do fall” There’s going to be…

Posted in LGBTQ+ Mark Gatiss TV

TV Review: London Spy

 “People lie Danny, they lie very well”  Well this was a disappointment wasn’t it, there’s no two…