Tag: Nicholas Burns

Posted in Film

Film Review: Hope Gap (2019)

Hope Gap sees Annette Bening and Bill Nighy star in this chilly depiction of divorce by the…

Posted in Courttia Newland Rebecca Lenkiewicz TV

TV Review: Small Axe

Steve McQueen’s anthology flm series Small Axe is an absolute triumph as it depicts the West Indian…

Posted in EV Crowe Lyric Hammersmith Mike Bartlett News Not-London Orange Tree Theatre Royal Court Royal Exchange Theatre UK Winsome Pinnock

News: Lockdown Theatre Festival brings four cancelled shows to radio

Plays by writers including Mike Bartlett and EV Crowe that were forced to close early because of…

Posted in Film

Lockdown film review: Emma. (2020)

Autumn de Wilder offers an Emma. with a contemporary sensibility but not much sense “Mother, you MUST…

Posted in Donmar Warehouse Lyric Hammersmith Shakespeare Theatre Watford Palace Young Vic

Blogged: shaking up Shakespeare

I have a mixed time with some shaken-up Shakespeares – othellomacbeth at the Lyric Hammersmith; Twelfth Night at…

Posted in Donmar Warehouse Jack Thorne Lin-Manuel Miranda Musicals News Not-London Philip Pullman Royal Court Royal Exchange Shakespeare Southwark Playhouse Theatre TV UK

Casting news aplenty!

I round up some of the recent casting news, including Queen Margaret at the Royal Exchange, Wasted…

Posted in Peter Morgan The Crown TV

TV Review: The Crown, Series 2

A quick whip through Series 2 of The Crown “History is not made by those who did…

Posted in Blogged Bridge Theatre Richard Bean Theatre

Thoughts on a visit to the Bridge Theatre

  Good things come to those who wait! I hadn’t booked for Young Marx at the brand…

Posted in Bridge Theatre News Theatre

Full cast announced for Young Marx

  1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke, restless and horny,…