Tag: Sir Ian McKellen

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2016 BroadwayWorld UK Awards – Winners’ list

Best Actor in a New Production of a Musical Michael Xavier – Sunset Boulevard – London Coliseum…

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9 of my top moments in a theatre in 2016

The end-of-year lists of favourite plays and performances should be on their way soon, once the food…

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Full list of 2016 UK Theatre Awards winners

Best Performance in a Play Paapa Essiedu for HAMLET, a Royal Shakespeare Company production Best Supporting Performance…

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2017 What’s On Stage Award nominations

Best Actor in a Play, sponsored by Radisson Blu Edwardian Ian Hallard for The Boys in the Band…

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Barely-a-Review: No Man’s Land, Wyndham’s Theatre

“You know what it’s like when you’re in a room with the light on and then suddenly…

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The 2016 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Best actor Sir Kenneth Branagh The Entertainer, Garrick Theatre O-T Fagbenle Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, National Theatre,…

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TV Review: Shakespeare Live, Royal Shakespeare Theatre

  “I am a spirit of no common rate” The culmination of the BBC’s celebration of the…

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DVD Review: Macbeth (1979)

“Round about the cauldron go” Who’d’ve thought that it would be a production from 1979 that would…

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DVD Review: Othello (1990)

“Horribly stuffed with epithets of war” When starting this DVD rewatching enterprise, I knew I’d be happy…