Tag: Reece Shearsmith

Posted in Film Jez Butterworth Mark Gatiss

Film Review: Birthday Girl (2001)

“Are you a giraffe?” Birthday Girl is a rather odd little thing, a 2001 film from Jez…

Posted in Doctor Who Mark Gatiss TV

TV Review: An Adventure in Space and Time

“No-one knows how long it is going to last. No-one’s irreplaceable.” Originally broadcast around the 50th anniversary…

Posted in Richard Eyre Shakespeare The Hollow Crown Theatre TV

TV Review: The Hollow Crown, Henry IV Part II

“I’ll tickle your catastrophe” I was mildly disappointed by the second instalment of The Hollow Crown, Henry…

Posted in April De Angelis David Lindsay-Abaire Dennis Kelly Eugene O'Neill Jeanine Tesori Michael Frayn Musicals Olivier Awards Penelope Skinner Richard Bean Shakespeare Stiles + Drewe Terence Rattigan Theatre Theatre awards Vivienne Franzmann

2012 Laurence Olivier Awards nominations

Best New Play  Collaborators by John Hodge – National Theatre Cottesloe Jumpy by April De Angelis –…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Theatre West End

Review: Absent Friends, Harold Pinter Theatre

“Keep it cheerful”   In some ways, there’s no point in commenting on Alan Ayckbourn as a…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Anthony Neilson April De Angelis Barbican Theatre Bridge Project David Lindsay-Abaire Dennis Kelly Donmar Warehouse Eugene O'Neill Hampstead Theatre Jason Robert Brown Jeanine Tesori Lyric Hammersmith Mark Gatiss Menier Chocolate Factory Mike Leigh Morgan Lloyd Malcolm National Theatre Old Vic Open Air Theatre Penelope Skinner Richard Bean Royal Court RSC Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Southwark Playhouse Stiles + Drewe Terence Rattigan Theatre awards Union Theatre Vivienne Franzmann What's On Stage Awards

2012 What’s On Stage Award nominations

BEST ACTOR IN A PLAY James Corden – One Man, Two Guvnors at the National, Lyttelton & Adelphi  Benedict…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals Stiles + Drewe Theatre

Album Review: Betty Blue Eyes (Official London Cast Recording)

  “He has magic fingers” Before it came to an untimely end, the cast of Betty Blue…

Posted in Musicals Stiles + Drewe Theatre West End

Re-review: Betty Blue Eyes, Novello Theatre

“Pig! No pig!” Not too much to say about revisiting Betty Blue Eyes as most everything I…

Posted in Musicals Stiles + Drewe Theatre West End

Review: Betty Blue Eyes, Novello Theatre

“Another little victory for little England” With a book by Ron Cowen + Daniel Lipman, adapted from the…