OffWestEnd announces 47 finalists for its Offies Awards 2021, across 15 categories, covering 24 venues across London.
‘One of the best productions at the Globe this year’: EYAM – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★★
Eyam is a celebration of the strength of human spirit in the face of seemingly impossible odds, highlighting the power and comfort of community – a stirring watch.
‘A grim tale of human endurance & sacrifice’: EYAM – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★
Eyam, the final production of The Globe’s summer season, drags in the autumn with a grim tale of human endurance and sacrifice, reimagining for the stage the true story of a plague-ridden parish in 1655.
NEWS: Full casting announced for Eyam at Shakespeare’s Globe
Shakespeare’s Globe has announced full casting for Matt Hartley’s new play. Eyam, directed by Adele Thomas, runs from 15 September to 13 October 2018.
Year in Review: Ian Foster’s 12 Leading Men of the Year 2016
It’s that time of year again when I am publicly shallow in my appreciation of the men that grace our stages – and given the hit counts I get on these annual posts, you’re all just as thirsty as me! (Note from Mates: Visit Ian’s site for many more, and more revealing, pics of each – plus archive lists since 2009!)
SUNSET AT THE VILLA THALIA – National Theatre
Downton’s Elizabeth McGovern stars in a new play about Greece that is both intelligent and very enjoyable.
FARINELLI AND THE KING – West End
At the age of 32, at the very height of a superstardom today reserved for the Hollywood A-list, the great 18th Century castrato Farinelli turned his back on the stage, never to return, to sing for only one man – Philippe V, the King of Spain. The King, suffering from a madness brought on by depression, could only find solace and sanity in Farinelli’s heavenly tones.
Review: Farinelli and the King (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse)
Have I told you lately how much I love the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the beeswax-candle-lit trinket-box theatre that Shakespeare’s Globe carved out of its own foyer a year ago? It’s like you’re Queen Elizabeth – no, the Blackadder one – and have summoned top actors to come and perform in your living room. Which is surreal, because that’s what Farinelli […]
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