Following on from the successful Screen Plays 'Classics on TV' seasons 'Greek Tragedy on the Small Screen' (June 2012) and 'Jacobean Tragedy on the Small Screen' (March-April 2013), the project is delighted once again to be working more
There's something a bit superfluous and a bit naive and a bit daft about this post. But after last night and this afternoon I just want to express how much at present I love the theatre. Of course I am 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 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
To the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse for the first public performance of Francis Beaumont's 1607 The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Which, let it be said, is very funny, very finely played (including by Pauline McLynn and Phil Daniels, above) more
Short of living in the London of the early seventeenth century, this must be the best of times for those of us interested in early modern theatre beyond the Bard. Tonight I'm off to the new Sam Wanamaker 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 Illuminations DVD release of the 1960 BBC series An Age of Kings is now well and truly launched - and initial sales are promising. These eight Shakespeare History plays in the 5-disc box set can be more