Tag: Frances Barber

Posted in Film Shakespeare

News: Ian McKellen’s Hamlet to come to UK cinemas in February 2024

Kaleidoscope Entertainment have confirmed that a new adaptation of Hamlet, starring two-time Academy Award nominee and Shakespearian titan Ian McKellen,…

Posted in TV

TV Review: Dreamland

Lily Allen makes her TV acting debut alongside a brilliant Freema Agyeman in Dreamland “Why are you…

Posted in Chichester Festival Theatre Mark Gatiss Steven Moffat Theatre Theatre review West End

Review: The Unfriend, Criterion Theatre

There’s a lot of talent around Steven Moffatt’s comedy The Unfriend but I found it desperately unfunny…

Posted in Lyric Hammersmith Patrick Marber Theatre Theatre review

Review: Closer, Lyric Hammersmith

Patrick Marber’s Closer celebrates its 25th anniversary with an occasionally muddled but very strongly cast production at…

Posted in Agatha Christie Alan Ayckbourn Alan Bennett Chichester Festival Theatre Christopher Shinn David Greig Mark Gatiss Musicals Not-London Stephen Beresford Steven Moffat Theatre

News: CFT’S 60th anniversary season announced

Full details of Chichester Festival Theatre’s Festival 2022 – their diamond anniversary year – have been announced by Artistic…

Posted in Mark Gatiss TV

TV Review: A Ghost Story for Christmas – The Mezzotint

Mark Gatiss adapts MR James’ The Mezzotint for a well cast ghostly Christmas treat “We’ve enough tat…

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2021 Offie & ONCOMM Award Winners

In this ‘special circumstances’ year, the Offies 2021 Awards Ceremony celebrated the creativity and resilience of artists…

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The finalists of The Offies 2021

The finalists for the 2021 Offies (for productions in 2020) have been announced and congratulations to the…

Posted in Books Phoebe Waller-Bridge Photos Theatre West End

Book review: Time To Act – Simon Annand

Simon Annand’s Time To Act is a beautiful book of photos capturing actors in the minutes before…