John Heffernan stars in Rory Mullarkey’s new play Saint George and the Dragon, which is directed by Lyndsey Turner and now running at the National’s Olivier Theatre until 2 December 2017. Here’s what critics have been saying about it.
NEWS: John Heffernan leads cast of Saint George & the Dragon premiere
John Heffernan takes the title role in the premiere of Rory Mullarky’s new play Saint George & the Dragon, directed by Lyndsey Turner and running 4 October to 2 December 2017 at the National’s Olivier Theatre. Full casting for has been announced.
NEWS: Royal Court winter includes Dennis Kelly premiere & Rita, Sue & Bob Too revival
The Royal Court Theatre has today announced new season of work for autumn/winter 2017/18. The programme includes five world premieres.
THE TREATMENT – Almeida Theatre
The Treatment has often been ignored, perhaps on account of its large cast, or because of its large scale. Now that the Almeida Theatre has decided to stage this story of how art cannibalises life we have the chance to judge its relevance some 25 years after its premiere.
NEWS: Julian Ovenden & Indira Varma join cast of Crimp’s The Treatment
The Almeida Theatre today announced the full cast of The Treatment, Martin Crimp’s new play, which runs from 24 April 2017 to 10 June 2017, with a press night on 24 April.
INTERVIEW: Spotlight On… RSC actor (& producer) Alex Waldmann
Alex Waldmann is a veteran of the RSC and of Shakespeare productions in general so it was fascinating to get his insight – he’s also the founder of theatre company SEARED, whose premiere of Michael McLean’s Years of Sunlight opens this week at London’s Theatre503.
INTERVIEW: Spotlight On… RSC actor (& producer) Alex Waldmann
Alex Waldmann is a veteran of the RSC and of Shakespeare productions in general so it was fascinating to get his insight – he’s also the founder of theatre company SEARED, whose premiere of Michael McLean’s Years of Sunlight opens this week at London’s Theatre503.
NEWS: Almeida spring includes political premieres by Martin Crimp, James Graham & Christopher Shinn
The Almeida Theatre announces a new season and a major new digital film project exploring leadership in crisis and the power of words. Premieres of plays by Martin Crimp, Christopher Shinn and James Graham.
Plays for my Brexit & Chilcot mood: The Truth, Faith Healer, The Spoils
Has anyone else had difficulty getting back into their theatregoing after the results of the EU Referendum? The two – excellent – plays I have managed to see since the UK voted to leave on 23 June, have both, in a strange way, deepened my Brexit despair too. Neither Florian Zeller‘s The Truth nor Faith Healer by […]
FAITH HEALER – Donmar Warehouse
Revival of the late Brian Friel’s 1979 classic is brilliantly acted, beautifully directed and haunting in its ambiguity.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Faith Healer at the Donmar Warehouse
Directed by Lyndsey Turner, Brian Friel’s 1979 play about the possibility of genius but the uncertainty of failure opened at the Donmar Warehouse last night. Faith Healer continues until 20 August 2016. Here’s what critics have been saying…
FAITH HEALER – Donmar Warehouse
A veil of rain surrounds the stage where three narrators will appear, each with their own version of a shared life “shabby, bleak, derelict”. Yet, in Brian Friel’s eloquent profound vision, it is a life as heartshaking and important. Frank Hardy is an itinerant faith healer, huckster and mountebank working the Celtic fringes; the others his robust old-school vaudeville manager Teddy, and his mistress Grace, who ran away with him despite her father’s fulmination about “chicanery”.
NEWS: Ron Cook joins Stephen Dillane & Gina McKee in Faith Healer at Donmar
The Donmar Warehouse announces that Ron Cook will complete full casting in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, joining previously announced cast Stephen Dillane and Gina McKee. Faith Healer is directed by Lyndsey Turner, who returns to the Donmar following her acclaimed productions of Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come! and Fathers and Sons. Award-winning Designer Es Devlin joins the creative team, her first time designing at the Donmar.
Weekly Theatre Podcast: Benedict Cumberbatch Hamlet, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Benedict Cumberbatch’s much-hyped Hamlet at the Barbican and an Off-West End revival of Broadway musical Thoroughly Modern Millie are discussed on the latest As Yet Unnamed London Theatre Podcast.
Press pass: Critics finally (officially) get their say on Cumberbatch Hamlet
As one critic stated upfront: the press night is a major anti-climax. Nevertheless, while the verdicts don’t make a blind bit of difference to the box office on a production that sold out in record time a year ago, it’s time to take pause and review the reviews for #HamletBarbican, a.k.a. the Benedict Cumberbatch show. […]
NEWS: Full casting announced for Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet at Barbican
Rehearsals begin today (15 June 2015) for Lyndsey Turner’s production of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. Joining Cumberbatch are Barry Aird (Soldier), Eddie Arnold (Danish Captain, Servant), Leo Bill (Horatio), Siân Brooke (Ophelia), Nigel Carrington (Servant, Cornelius), Ruairi Conaghan (Player King), Rudi Dharmalingam (Guildenstern), Colin Haigh (Priest, Messenger), Paul Ham (Official), Diveen Henry (Player Queen, …
NEWS: £10 tickets for Benedict Cumberbatch’s Barbican Hamlet now on sale
Sonia Friedman Productions,in partnership with Sky Arts, has allocated 100 £10 tickets, spread throughout the auditorium for every performance of Lyndsey Turner’s production of Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role at the Barbican Theatre from 5 August 2015. 60 of the Sky Arts £10 tickets will be sold in advance via the Barbican website in an on-line ticket …
NEWS: Further casting announced for Hamlet at the Barbican
Joining Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the title role in Lyndsey Turner’s production of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, are Leo Bill as Horatio, Sian Brooke as Ophelia, Anastasia Hille as Gertrude, Ciarán Hinds as Claudius,Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Laertes and Jim Norton as Polonius.