Tag: Adrian Lester

Posted in Film

Film Review: Born Romantic (2000)

“Have you never been in love? ‘No, too much choice.’” Now this is a curious thing –…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Stephen Sondheim

Album Review: Company (1996 London Cast Recording)

 “It’s things like using force together, Shouting till you’re hoarse together, Getting a divorce together” Sam Mendes’…

Posted in Cheek By Jowl Digital Shakespeare Theatre

Review: Cheek By Jowl’s As You Like It, screening at Noël Coward Theatre

“One man in his time plays many parts” Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of this particular production and…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Evening Standard Theatre Awards Lucy Kirkwood Musicals Rachel De-lahay Theatre Theatre awards

Winners of the 2013 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards

BEST ACTOR Chiwetel Ejiofor, A Season in the Congo (Young Vic) WINNER Rory Kinnear, Othello, National (Olivier)…

Posted in Evening Standard Theatre Awards Lucy Kirkwood Lucy Prebble Nick Dear Phoebe Waller-Bridge Rachel De-lahay Theatre awards

The 2013 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards

BEST ACTOR Chiwetel Ejiofor, A Season in the Congo (Young Vic) Rory Kinnear, Othello, National (Olivier) Adrian Lester, Othello, National (Olivier)…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Alan Bennett David Hare Digital Eugene O'Neill George Bernard Shaw Harold Pinter Howard Brenton Michael Frayn Musicals National Theatre Noël Coward Peter Shaffer Shakespeare Stephen Sondheim Tennessee Williams Theatre Tom Stoppard Tony Kushner

Review: National Theatre – Fifty Years on Stage

“We’ve got two hours to show the vast range of work the National has done over the…

Posted in Digital Film Short Films

Short Film Review #22

The opening section of Gavin Toomey’s Drop is just gorgeous – Russell Tovey’s bored security guard illuminated…

Posted in TV

DVD Review: Ballet Shoes

“Who knows what you three could achieve” It’s lovely the way things fall together sometimes. Noel Streatfield’s…

Posted in National Theatre Shakespeare Theatre

Review: Othello, National Theatre

“Demand me nothing: what you know, you know” Though I’ve been to the theatre a fair bit…