Tag: Helen McCrory

Posted in Film Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe

Film Review: Bill (2015)

Bill reunites the Horrible Histories crew around Shakespeare and features a vivid if too brief turn from…

Posted in Theatre

Actors and Colleagues React to Helen McCrory’s Death at Age 52

Thought I’d share this rather lovely collection of reactions to Helen McCrory’s untimely death at the age…

Posted in Photos Theatre

Helen McCrory – a life in pictures

Still too much to bear. The Guardian have put together this beautiful set of photos looking back…

Posted in Jack Thorne Lin-Manuel Miranda Philip Pullman Phoebe Waller-Bridge TV

TV Review: His Dark Materials, Series 2

No spoilers, but the second series of His Dark Materials is a continued absolute triumph “Your duty…

Posted in Anton Chekhov Donmar Warehouse Inua Ellams Lucy Kirkwood Mark Gatiss Musicals National Theatre Peter Shaffer Shakespeare Simon Stone Theatre West End Young Vic

News: NT launches new streaming service National Theatre at Home

The National Theatre, in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, has today launched  National Theatre at Home, a brand-new…

Posted in Messiah TV

TV Review: Messiah – The Harrowing (2005)

Helen McCrory and Maxine Peake help elevate Messiah – The Harrowing to arguably the series’ devastatingly effective…

Posted in David Hare TV

TV Review: Roadkill

The new David Hare political drama Roadkill proves to be the scariest thing about this year’s Hallowe’en,…

Posted in David Hare TV

New TV shows for winter

As the clocks go back, the prestige TV shows come out, so I checked out the first…

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…