Discussions about adapting stage plays for the screen, whether broadcast live or recorded 'as live', have moved on apace over the past couple of months. There have also been a number of further cinema broadcasts, including a successful presentation by more
If it's Wednesday, it must be the live broadcast day of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcast of Henry IV Part II. We're back at the Boar's Head tavern, which is where Falstaff, Hal more
I am in Stratford-upon-Avon for today's first camera rehearsal for the RSC's live cinema presentation of Henry IV Part II on 18 June. One of the things that frustrates me about these broadcasts is that they rarely get more
To Clapham Picturehouse for Saturday night's Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Puccini's La bohème. And "live" it most certainly was, for only around five hours earlier soprano Kristine Opolais replaced flu-stricken Anita Hartig in the main role more
On his blog Modern Art Notes the smart, provocative and always readable critic Tyler Green publishes The Monday Checklist, an invaluable weekly round-up of the visual arts. He notes new reviews, highlights Twitter and Tumblr feeds and draws attention more
On Friday the Royal Shakespeare Company launched the trailer for their new productions of Henry IV Parts I and II: Following November's successful showing of Richard II, these new stagings will be broadcast in cinemas for Live more
3pm, and Screen 1 at Cineworld Wandsworth is perhaps one-sixth full. I am waiting for neither The Lego Movie nor Mr Peabody and Sherman - those cinemas have rather more people in them - but rather the ENO's stand-out Peter Grimes more
Digital Theatre were kind enough to invite me to the premiere last night at Cineworld Haymarket of their new recording of Private Lives (above). Perhaps it was unfortunate that, as I wrote in part more
At lunchtime on Sunday I sat in the front row of Screen 2 at the Barbican watching - for the first time on a big screen since November - Richard II Live from Stratford-upon-Avon. Tonight I sat in the more
The RSC has posted a 5-minute extract from Richard II Live from Stratford-upon-Avon on YouTube and elsewhere, and I am delighted to embed it here. This is part of Act IV Scene 1, the deposition scene, and it gives a more