With the RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcast on Wednesday, it's been a busy and fairly intense week. One lovely and sort-of-related online offering this week is the full audio track from the RSC's Midsummer Night's Dreaming event with more
'A while to work, and after holiday.' So today was my holiday after Wednesday's Richard II broadcast (there will be more posts about it next week), and in glorious sunshine I drove towards Canterbury, visiting a couple of churches on more
Slowly trying to make sense of last night. In many ways the broadcast was immaculate - it looked great and, in the OB truck, it sounded great. There were no significant problems in Stratford but I know that a small more
This is the post I'm using to chronicle events up to Wednesday evening; you can also follow how things are unfolding via @livefromSuA, @TheRSC and @Illuminations. 6.11pm Everyone is returning and we're about to more
If you see just one thing in the cinema this week, make sure it's the RSC's Live from Stratford-upon-Avon Richard II on Wednesday. But your second cinema visit has to be the astonishing Gravity, with Sandra Bullock (above). (Apologies to more
Uncertain as I am about whether the details of the RSC Richard II Live from Stratford-upon-Avon production schedule are really of any interest, I took a stab at chronicling that on Sunday, and I'll continue that today. Later today we will run more
Read of the week - if 'read' is the right word - has to be the Guardian's remarkable round-up of the implications of the Snowden revelations in its digital presentation NSA Files: Decoded. You should also most definitely more
Far be it from me to rain on the National Theatre's fiftieth birthday parade, but allow me to make a few slightly-less-than-gushing remarks about the recent two-part Arena documentary and tonight's compilation album of extracts. (The two films are on more
First day of the new month, and just twelve to go until the Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcast to UK cinemas of the RSC's Richard II (full details and links to ticket sales here). On Sunday the more
Last week I saw on consecutive nights the National Theatre's production of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II and Headlong's 1984 (above, in a production photograph by Tristram Kenton). The former, now closed, was directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, the more