What goes on in the wings: actors’ backstage secrets | Stage | The Guardian
From knitting and piano-playing to late-night poker games, eight stars including Mark Rylance, Anne-Marie Duff and Niamh Cusack reveal all Source: What goes on in the wings: actors’ backstage secrets … Continue reading
Black Shakespeare: Paapa Essiedu from Hamlet to Edmund | The Shakespeare blog
On 13 August it was the last performance of the latest production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. Every production of this play is notable, but particularly this … Continue reading
Royal Shakespeare Company’s plans for 2016 | The Shakespeare blog
All the large Shakespeare organisations are celebrating the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016 with events to show that Shakespeare is universal, appealing to people of all ages and … Continue reading
Mr Foote’s Other Leg
Recently I took a trip to the stunning Theatre Royal, Haymarket to see Ian Kelly’s rightly celebrated new play,Mr Foote’s Other Leg. The theatre, which dates back to 1720, is … Continue reading
Samuel Foote Comes Home
Originally posted on London Historians' Blog:
This is excellent news. It has been announced this morning that Ian Kelly’s play Mr Foote’s Other Leg will transfer to Theatre Royal Haymarket…
The vision of King Lear by Sam Mendes & Simon Russell Beale
Originally posted on pilar221b:
Academy Award® winner Sam Mendes (James Bond: Skyfall, American Beauty) returned to the National Theatre to direct Simon Russell Beale (Timon of Athens, Collaborators) in the…
Rogues & Vagabonds 