Tag: Antony Sher

Posted in Jack Thorne TV

TV Review: War Book

“We’re here to outplay a scenario” I can’t remember who alerted me to Jack Thorne’s War Book…

Posted in Arthur Miller Not-London RSC Theatre UK

Review: Death of a Salesman, Royal Shakespeare Theatre

“Certain men just don’t get started ‘til later in life” To criticise an RSC production of being…

Posted in Manchester Theatre Awards Theatre awards

The 2014 Manchester Theatre Awards winners in full

Best actor: Harry McEntire, Billy Liar, Royal Exchange Best actress: Clare Foster, Duet For One and Separation,…

Posted in Barney Norris Critics Circle Awards Ivo van Hove Mike Bartlett Theatre awards

Critics’ Circle Awards 2014: the winners in full

  Best New Play King Charles III by Mike Bartlett The Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical Gypsy…

Posted in Manchester Theatre Awards Not-London Theatre Theatre awards UK

The 2014 Manchester Theatre Awards nominations

Best Actor Rob Edwards, in Duet For One and Separation, at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton Michael Hugo,…

Posted in Film Tom Stoppard

Film Review: Shakespeare in Love (1998)

“Theatre is the handmaiden of the devil” With a theatrical version of Shakespeare in Love about to…

Posted in National Theatre Theatre

Review: The Captain of Köpenick, National Theatre

“Laws are like sausages, it’s better not to see them being made” ‘Released after fifteen years in…

Posted in Richmond Theatre Terry Johnson Theatre

Review: Hysteria, Richmond Theatre

“This is a complete farce” Terry Johnson’s 1993 play Hysteria garnered all sorts of awards for its…

Posted in Charles Dickens Radio Plays Theatre

Radio Review: Dickens in London

“It seems that I would be an uncommercial traveler” The bi-centenary of Charles Dickens’ birth has been…