Tag: Matthew Spencer

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TV Review: Trying (Series 4)

Series 4 of Trying shifts the focus onto Nikki and Jason’s adoptive kids with little real success…

Posted in Open Air Theatre Shakespeare Theatre Theatre review

Review: Twelfth Night, Open Air Theatre

Anna Francolini and Richard Cant shine in a queered-up, bittersweet take on Twelfth Night at Regent’s Park…

Posted in News Open Air Theatre Shakespeare Theatre

News: Cast and creatives for Twelfth Night at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre announced

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre today announce full cast forTwelfth Night or What You Will, Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken…

Posted in National Theatre Peter Shaffer Theatre Theatre review

Re-review: Amadeus, National Theatre

“We were both ordinary men, he and I.” Though Rufus Norris’ tenure hasn’t managed to nail a…

Posted in Abi Morgan Anton Chekhov Arthur Miller Beth Steel Bristol Old Vic Donmar Warehouse Eugene O'Neill fosterIANs Gate Theatre Hampstead Theatre Hope Theatre Musicals National Theatre Peter Gill Peter Shaffer Robert Icke Rory Mullarkey Royal Exchange Samuel Beckett Shakespeare Sheffield Theatres Theatre

20 shows to look forward to in 2018

There’s all sorts of big productions arriving in the months to come (Long Day’s Journey Into Night,…

Posted in News Theatre

Round-up of news and treats and other interesting things

How to respond to a week such as that? Defer to those more fearlessly eloquent, and listen….

Posted in Almeida Theatre Ancient Greeks Digital Mark Gatiss Theatre

Review: The Iliad Online, Almeida/Live-stream

“You can’t kill me I can’t ever die” After three weeks away, all my initial thoughts were…

Posted in Duncan Macmillan Headlong Richmond Theatre Robert Icke Theatre Theatre review Touring

Review: 1984, Headlong at Richmond Theatre

“You may as well say goodbye” For a novel written in 1949, it is remarkable how much…

Posted in Digital Film Short Films

Short Film Review #15

  The danger of ripping the piss out of something is that you often leave yourself open…