Antic Disposition’s A Christmas Carol is true to both the spirit and detail of the book, while adding its own sense of playfulness that feels fresh and modern.
CASTING: Jane Horrocks & Karl Johnson join Alan Cumming & Daniel Radcliffe in Endgame
Jane Horrocks and Karl Johnson will join, as previously announced, Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe in the Old Vic’s forthcoming revival of Samuel Beckett’s 1957 classic Endgame.
NEWS: Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Alan Cumming & Daniel Radcliffe feature in new Old Vic season
Details of Matthew Warchus’ Season 5 at The Old Vic Theatre have been announced. Highlights include:
Claire Foy and Matt Smith making their Old Vic debuts in Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs and Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe starring in a double bill of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Rough for Theatre ll.
‘Clumsy mashing of the plots greatly deflates the drama’: THE TWILIGHT ZONE – West End
Maybe in a far-off dimension of time and space, at the crossroads of imagination and reality, our descendants will discover a stage adaption of The Twilight Zone which will fill them with the wonder and mystery of the original. But not here.
NEWS: Full casting announced for the West End transfer of Almeida Theatre’s The Twilight Zone
Full casting has been announced for the highly-anticipated West End transfer of the Almeida’s production of The Twilight Zone which transfers to the Ambassadors Theatre from 4 March 2019 (press night is 8 March).
NEWS: Almeida Theatre’s The Twilight Zone will transfer to the West End in March 2019
After a sell-out Almeida run, The Twilight Zone will transfer to the West End and will run at the Ambassadors Theatre from 4 March 2019 (press night is 8 March). Adapted by Anne Washburn (Mr Burns), this production of the acclaimed classic CBS television series The Twilight Zone is directed by the multi-award-winning director (winner of seven Olivier Awards) Richard Jones.
‘Clever & classy’: THE TWILIGHT ZONE – Almeida Theatre
The action is tightly choreographed, with the nine-strong cast playing multiple characters in a black and white world, wearing black and white costumes and performing in black box speckled with white stars and occasionally, on a television set.
‘It passed the time’: THE TWILIGHT ZONE – Almeida Theatre ★★★
It is at times hilarious, with some fine deadpan 1950s performances from the cast of 10 and three supernumeraries doing the trundling.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: La Bohème at the Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House presents a brand new production of Puccini’s classic opera, La Boheme, directed by Richard Jones and running until 10 October 2017. Here’s Love London Love Culture’s round-up of the reviews.
NEWS: Goold directs Mike Bartlett latest, Twilight Zone gets stage premiere in new Almeida season
In addition to the West End transfer of James Graham’s Ink, the Almeida Theatre has today announced its new season, including the stage premiere of The Twilight Zone and Mike Bartlett’s new play Albion.
NEWS: Cat (The Play) gets West End premiere starring Gerard McCarthy
It has been confirmed that Cat (The Play), about one performer’s life in musicals, will make its West End premiere at the Ambassador’s Theatre, running for two nights only on 25 and 26 April 2017.
ONCE IN A LIFETIME – Young Vic Theatre
With its kooky look at the characters drawn to California’s movie gold rush, Once in a Lifetime took a comic swipe at the coincidental, accidental happenings that turned opportunists into cinematic frontiersmen and women. It’s a comedy made for big performances, satire writ large to the point of caricature.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Once in a Lifetime at the Young Vic Theatre
Harry Enfield makes his theatre debut in Richard Jones’s production – but what have critics been saying about it? The Guardian: *** “Enfield gives us a shuffling oldster who knows that his power lies in his position. His performance is […]
NEWS: Harry Enfield stars in Once in a Lifetime at Young Vic, New shows
Award-winning comedian, actor, writer and director Harry Enfield will play Hollywood studio boss Glogauer in Richard Jones’ production of Once in a Lifetime from 25 November 2016 in the Young Vic’s Main House. Joining Enfield in the company are Daniel Abelson, Claudie Blakley, Okorie Chukwu, Lucy Cohu, Lizzy Connolly, Buffy Davis, Otto Farrant, Amy Griffiths, Amanda Lawrence and John Marquez. Further casting is still to …
NEWS: Rory Kinnear makes directing debut with The Winter’s Tale in new ENO season
The English National Opera has released details of its 2016/2017 season which will see the London Coliseum increase the number of productions it presents to 11 (10 fully staged and one concert hall staging).
NEWS: Rory Kinnear makes directing debut with The Winter’s Tale in new ENO season
The English National Opera has released details of its 2016/2017 season which will see the London Coliseum increase the number of productions it presents to 11 (10 fully staged and one concert hall staging).
BORIS GODUNOV – Royal Opera House
And amidst the bells, there’s Bryn. Terfel’s Boris – thoughtful and real – is a presence pervading the piece until the fifth scene where all his torments are visited upon him. He is quite marvellous in the death scene – so far removed from the booming melodrama of the Christoff era.
THE HAIRY APE – Old Vic
Classic. Expressionist. Socialist. Eugene O’Neill. You could add to that depressing list ‘directed by Richard Jones’, the man who sucked all the life out of Annie Get Your Gun across the road at the Young Vic by staging it as seen through a letter box.
THE HAIRY APE – West End
From the opening moments of Richard Jones’ stunning, nightmarish production of Eugene O’Neill’s early play we have both the shock of expressionist newness – it can still disconcert, a century on – and a powerful sense of period. Both are profoundly right.
NEWS: Bertie Carvel stars in Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape at Old Vic
Bertie Carvel is to lead the cast in Richard Jones’ new production of The Hairy Ape at The Old Vic. The second production in Matthew Warchus’ tenure as Artistic Director, The Hairy Ape opens on 29 October 2015, with previews from 17 October and will see The Old Vic theatre transform back to its original proscenium arch layout.
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