Category: Nick Dear

Posted in Agatha Christie Nick Dear TV

12 Days of Lesley Manville – 4: Poirot – Cards on the Table

In the midst of a luxe ensemble, Lesley Manville more than holds her own in the Poirot…

Posted in Dance Nick Dear Nick Payne Opera RSC Shakespeare Theatre

News: BBC lights up the culture world with Lights Up

For the first time in its history, a Royal Shakespeare Company production – The Winter’s Tale, directed…

Posted in Nick Dear Rose Theatre Kingston Theatre Theatre review

Review: Hogarth’s Progress, Rose Theatre Kingston

The reliance on an all-white cast to tell Hogarth’s Progress is another mis-step from a Rose Theatre…

Posted in Nick Dear Theatre

Cast of Hogarth’s Progress

The cast of Hogarth’s Progress include Ben Deery, Bryan Dick, Emma Cunniffe, Ian Hallard, Jack Derges, Jasmine…

Posted in LGBTQ+ Nick Dear Not-London Theatre UK

Review: Dedication – Shakespeare and Southampton, Nuffield Southampton Theatres

“In the end, who knows what is true?” Nuffield’s commissioning of new writing that is connected to…

Posted in Nick Dear TV

DVD Review: Persuasion (1995)

“No-one wants to be in calm waters all their life” Anyone who has read this blog for…

Posted in BBC Audio Drama Awards Mark Ravenhill Nick Dear Radio Plays

BBC Audio Drama Awards 2014 finalists

Best Original Audio Drama (Single play) (Judges: Fiona Shaw, Sebastian Born and Louise Jury) Billions by Ed…

Posted in Evening Standard Theatre Awards Lucy Kirkwood Lucy Prebble Nick Dear Phoebe Waller-Bridge Rachel De-lahay Theatre awards

The 2013 London Evening Standard Theatre Awards

BEST ACTOR Chiwetel Ejiofor, A Season in the Congo (Young Vic) Rory Kinnear, Othello, National (Olivier) Adrian Lester, Othello, National (Olivier)…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Nick Dear Theatre

Review: The Dark Earth and the Light Sky, Almeida Theatre

(With huge apologies to all concerned, especially to Alfred Lord Tennyson, this is to be read to…