Rehearsals for the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Richard II with David Tennant start a week tomorrow, Tuesday (the cast get the Bank Holiday off too). And we deep in the preparations for the Live from Stratford Upon Avon broadcast to cinemas more
Another Saturday, another review of another DVD set from Network's The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection. Following last week's engagement with the first release, today's post is concerned with Volume 2. Here is another quartet of lesser-known more
For the past year and more, we have hugely enjoyed working with the academic team putting together Shakespearean London Theatres. The ShaLT project is dedicated to telling 'the full story behind the vast theatrical scene that more
I am delighted to have been invited to edit a special edition of the journal Shakespeare Bulletin to appear in 2015. Published by The John Hopkins University Press, the journal has as one of its editors more
... a bit, well, ordinary. At least that's how David Bowie is happening now came across in my £14.20 seat at the Cineworld Wandsworth. Tonight's 7pm screening was billed as 'a live nationwide cinema event' and the 'finale' to the more
Oh to be in Edinburgh now that Hamlet's there. The Wooster Group's radical adaptation of the play has its last performance tonight as part of the official festival - it's sold out, of course, more
Time, I think, to start posting - initially on a weekly basis - about the preparations for Richard II Live from Stratford Upon Avon. This is the Royal Shakespeare Company's live-to-cinemas broadcast of the company's new more
Continuing this weekend's British cinema theme (see Ealing before Ealing here), my first recommendation has to be for Xan Brooks' delightful Guardian essay and video A pilgrim's progress: on the trail of A Canterbury Tale. Brooks more
Neither rhyme nor reason seems behind the choice of the four films in the first volume of the DVD series that Network have called The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection. Which is most excellent - the apparently more
Catching up (far too slowly) after China, there is a mountain of great stuff to read - and to recommend. One of the richest pieces published while I was away is David Bordwell's post Twice-told tales: Mildred Pierce more