All producers, I am certain, harbour films on which they would have loved to have had a credit. I should have produced The Godfather and, of course, It's a Wonderful Life. One step back from the realms of complete fantasy (yeah, right), I more
Just exactly one year ago, Illuminations, working with the Screen Plays research project, released a DVD box-set of the BBC's 15-part series from 1960, An Age of Kings. The series is an extraordinarily ambitious live studio production of all more
To Stratford-upon-Avon Picturehouse for a live broadcast of the Royal Ballet's Manon, choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan. Very splendid it was too, with Marianela Nuñez and Federico Bonelli as the principals, and with screen director Ross MacGibbon providing a master-class in how more
I have come to the end of the first week of my MOOC. Having taken an assessment test and scored 34 from a possible 36 points (and with one of those I dropped being highly questionable), I'm feeling sufficiently pleased more
Anarchy in Manchester, a new series produced by Illuminations, starts tonight on Sky Arts 1 HD at 10.30pm. Producer LINDA ZUCK and editor TODD MACDONALD introduce the programmes. LINDA: In six half-hour programmes, we bring you the very best of more
I have been reading with great pleasure the excellent Library of America anthology The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner. Edited by Laurence Senelick, this features numerous essays, reviews and poems across the more
Today is World Ballet Day, a remarkable online collaboration of ballet companies around the world. Since 3am this morning the Royal Ballet's free Youtube channel has been more
Picturegoing is a splendid online resource compiled and curated by the estimable Luke McKernan, who also runs another richly interesting blog under his own name and in his spare time is the British Library's more
To Middleham Castle on Saturday evening for a unique 'performed screening' of a 1911 silent film version of Shakespeare's Richard III. Sited in the glorious Yorkshire dales, the impressive castle, now in the care of English more
Many of the world's most prominent Shakespeare academics are meetings this week in Stratford-upon-Avon for the invite-only International Shakespeare Conference. A highlight of the first day was the screening of Shakespearian Spinach as more