Due to an increasing number of Covid-enforced absences, the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company/Fiery Angel new production of Terence Rattigan’s play The Browning Version, due to play at London’s Riverside Studios from 5-29 August 2021, has had to be cancelled.
From Cinderella to the Court: Mark Shenton reflects on another eventful week in the theatre calendar
The week began with Andrew Lloyd Webber being mentioned by Boris Johnson, as he extended the lockdown from the originally hoped-for ‘Freedom Day’ of 21 June to 19 July, at which point theatres may be able to reopen without social distancing in place;
NEWS: The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company will stage a new production of Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version
The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company has announced a brand new production of Terence Rattigan’s play The Browning Version. The production will play at London’s Riverside Studios from 5-29 August with Branagh directing.
‘Atmospheric & absorbing short drama’: THAT DINNER OF ’67 – BBC Radio 4
With director Stanley Kramer’s making of the groundbreaking film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner as its subject matter, Tracy-Ann Oberman and David Spicer’s new radio drama has a compelling contemporary relevance.
‘There is no doubt that Branagh’s performance is a bravura one’: LOOK BACK IN ANGER (Online review)
This version of Look Back in Anger is from 30 odd years later and was mounted by Renaissance Theatre, then a relatively new company formed by a young Kenneth Branagh. The play was directed by Judi Dench, his is a made for television re-creation from 1989.
A handful of critics got #HiddleHamlet tickets. What did they say?
Incredibly, amongst those who got lucky in RADA’s Tom Hiddleston Hamlet ticket ballot were critics for three national newspapers, who even managed to get into the first performance on Friday night. And here’s what they had to say.
PHOTOS: You can see Tom Hiddleston in #RADAHamlet… right here!
Don’t worry if you didn’t score in the ballot for London’s hottest ticket this month? Here are first-look photos of Tom Hiddleston in the title role of Kenneth Branagh’s new, highly sought-after production of Hamlet.
Tom Hiddleston’s #RADAHamlet in 15 tweets
Kenneth Branagh directs alumnus-turned-Hollywood superstar Tom Hiddleston as the Great Dane for three weeks only as a fundraiser for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Shanine Salmon has rounded up live-tweeting from one lucky ticket-holder
Tom Hiddleston, cats & theatre fangirls (here we go again)
There’s some arguments that come around and you think ‘really? we’re still talking about this?’ but also you’re not really surprised.So when it was annoucned Tom Hiddleston was teaming up with Kenneth Brannagh for a produc…
NEWS: Kenneth Branagh directs Tom Hiddleston in #RADAHamlet in Sep
Kenneth Branagh directs Tom Hiddleston in Hamlet for three weeks only to raise funds for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
LOVE IN IDLENESS – Menier Chocolate Factory
The rehabilitation of playwright Terence Rattigan has surpassed even the stage when not only are his best plays regularly revived, but also his less good work now reaches a large audience. So last year his masterpiece The Deep Blue Sea was at the National Theatre, while the enterprising Kenneth Branagh revived Harlequinade for the West End in November 2015.
LOVE IN IDLENESS – Menier Chocolate Factory
The rehabilitation of playwright Terence Rattigan has surpassed even the stage when not only are his best plays regularly revived, but also his less good work now reaches a large audience. So last year his masterpiece The Deep Blue Sea was at the National Theatre, while the enterprising Kenneth Branagh revived Harlequinade for the West End in November 2015.
NEWS: Kenneth Branagh presented with Special Award at 2017 Oliviers
Acclaimed actor and director Kenneth Branagh will be presented with the Special Award at the Olivier Awards 2017 with Mastercard ceremony on Sunday 9 April at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
NEWS: Sonia Friedman knocks ATG co-founders off The Stage 100 top spot
Harry Potter producer Sonia Friedman tops theatre’s 2017 power list. She’s been placed number one in The Stage 100, The Stage newspaper’s definitive guide to the most influential figures working in the UK theatre and performing arts industry
PHOTOS: Tom Hiddleston presents Kenneth Branagh with Evening Standard Award
By popular demand, here’s a special round-up of photos of Tom Hiddleston and Kenneth Branagh from this year’s star-studded Evening Standard Theatre Awards ceremony, held at the Old Vic last night
Theatre Podcast: The Entertainer, Young Chekhov, Home Chat
This week, the London theatre bloggers discuss The Entertainer starring Kenneth Branagh, Chichester’s transfer of its Young Chekhov season to the National, and Home Chat at the Finborough.
Quote Unquote: 11 different takes on actors & acting
Is it pure coincidence that many of the plays I’ve seen recently feature actors as characters? And, consequently, a range of views on the life of actors and the nature of acting, which got my quote-taking pen twitching. For any actors or FFOAs (friends or family of actors) reading, please tell me which most closely sums up your perspective.
THE ENTERTAINER – West End
The Brannagh season at the Garrick comes to a close in style with John Osbourne’s classic ‘The Entertainer’. When curating the season it seems a fitting finale for Kenneth Brannagh, who takes on the fading song and dance man Archie Rice.Osborne’s play …
THE ENTERTAINER – West End
Kenneth Branagh’s final show in his West End season is a revival that is slick, but a bit passionless.
THE ENTERTAINER – West End
If you find yourself in an audience of maturer years , flee quickly at the final curtain, or someone will creakingly inform you that they saw Olivier as Archie Rice, John Osborne’s failing music-hall performer in 1957.