Penny-plain People
I have written before about NT Live - the National Theatre's immensely successful live to cinema broadcasts - including about their showings of Hamlet, Frankenstein and Phedre, as well as general pieces here and more
I have written before about NT Live - the National Theatre's immensely successful live to cinema broadcasts - including about their showings of Hamlet, Frankenstein and Phedre, as well as general pieces here and more
Film fans, happiness is coming (this to be sung to a jaunty tune with optional hand-clapping). If you've seen Pablo Larraín's remarkable film No, about the rival media campaigns in the 1988 referendum in Chile, you might perhaps pick up the more
I have just finished reading Stephen Poliakoff's Dancing on the Edge. Or at least that's what it feels like. In fact I have been viewing on my iPad downloads of the five-part six-hour BBC Two film. I have more
My blog schedule for the week has been disrupted by a slow recovery from a modest bout of 'flu, so apologies for the absence of new posts in the past few days. Spending more time in bed than usual did more
So here's my beef. I have booked a ticket for tonight at the ever-excellent Clapham Picturehouse to watch the current Royal Opera House production of La bohème. This is being shown in - as you can see from more
A number of reviews have appeared in the past few weeks of two recent projects from Illuminations: the Royal Shakespeare Company Julius Caesar on DVD (above) and The Sonnets by William Shakespeare, our collaboration with Touch more
Hard though it is to believe, it is nearly seventeen years since we went backstage at the Royal Opera House in the BBC fly-on-the-wall series The House. Michael Kaiser, who later became general director of Covent Garden, summed more
20:16 I'm won over - not by the switching at The Space but by the view of the performance that the 'mix' channel offers. (Suzy Klein, incidentally, doing a great job.) And with that, I think I'm going to sign more
Time was in our house when the Advent calendar was the centre of the world right through December. But now our eldest, Nicholas, is studying at Ningbo in China (and blogging his time there), his brother Ben is more
I'm coming very late to this but I have been engaged by - and have learned from - a film made by BBC Research and Development and posted in six parts on their blog across the summer. Opening up the more