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21:52 Going to bed now, but I'll try to post some more considered thoughts once I've slept on it. 21:51 Andy Dickson at the Guardian says they are hoping to make the stream available on demand tomorrow - I hope they more
21:52 Going to bed now, but I'll try to post some more considered thoughts once I've slept on it. 21:51 Andy Dickson at the Guardian says they are hoping to make the stream available on demand tomorrow - I hope they more
So this evening has been dire - and it should have been a delight. A month or more ago, the arts department at Channel 4 very kindly sent me an invitation to an party-type thingy tonight with nibbles and Grayson Perry. more
After a good few months of preparation the Royal Shakespeare Company reveals today that it is to begin live cinema broadcasts of selected productions from Stratford-upon-Avon. The first screening will be of Gregory Doran's production of more
I have spent the evening in the front row of Screen 4 at Clapham Picturehouse watching the Royal Opera House live broadcast of Rossini's La donna del lago. I thought it truly splendid, and the best ROH broadcast more
Upstage there is a set with an enclosed room and other smaller spaces, including two booths like those used for sound recording. The room is dressed as a kitchen, with walls which have extensive glass panelling allowing the audience to more
We are delighted to feature another selection of videos compiled by our colleague Todd MacDonald, which he is also presenting every week on his own blog. Todd MacDonald: I've got some good'uns this week and I even more
Our colleague Todd MacDonald (@toddmacd), who works at Illuminations as our in-house editor, facilities manager and much more, has for the past few weeks been putting together an eclectic and enlightening selection of videos each Saturday. He has more
I had a ticket to the National Theatre's Othello tonight, but circumstances now mean that I'm at home. Which offers the perfect opportunity to watch the online live stream of The Arrest of Ai WeiWei from Hampstead Theatre. The stream is more
To Clapham Picturehouse for Manet: Portraying Life, the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition (until 14 April) 'captured for cinema screens worldwide'. That's the claim of Exhibition: Great Art on Screen, a new initiative from more
Here's an intriguing mystery. I have been writing in another context about the ITV company Granada and the benevolent despot who ran it in the 1950s and 1960s, Sidney Bernstein. Bernstein owned a chain of cinemas as more