Actor Iain Glen made his directorial debut this week, helming a production of Ibsen's 1881 classic Ghosts, in a new version by Frank McGuinness, in which he also stars with Lesley Sharp. The production opened […]
The worlds of TV sci-fi and musical theatre have collided in a bonus track on John Barrowman’s forthcoming solo album. Recorded exclusively for the iTunes version of the album, "The Doctor and I" is a […]
A painting of a windmill recently identified as a Van Gogh goes on display at a museum in Holland. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8536205.stm
Christie’s reach an out of court settlement after selling a painting for £8,000 which turned out to be a lost original Titian. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8535025.stm
In adapting his 1995 novel for the stage, Pat McCabe acknowledges the debt The Dead School owes to Tadeusz Kantor's The Dead Class, that haunting Polish masterpiece of ancient memories of desk-bound childhood. The Irish […]
London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall A couple of weeks ago I was bemoaning the fact that Prokofiev’s The Gambler was based on a novel by Dostoevsky rather than Gogol. Now, hot on […]
After transforming Wuthering Heights into a Bollywood-style musical last year (See News::E8831236987989, 19 Feb 2009), British Asian theatre company Tamasha will stage a Pakistan-set interpretation of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at Hampstead T… […]
Phil Willmott’s award-winning musical Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi, written for and premiered as part of Liverpool’s reign as European City of Culture in 2008 (See News::E8821197313298, 12 Dec 2007), will receive its […]
After its inaugural London season last summer, Edinburgh Fringe staple the E4 Udderbelly will return to the South Bank this year for an extended ten weeks (See Photos::E8831243508522, 28 May 2009), previewing work ahead of […]
Ibsen's Ghosts is no longer shocking, just very depressing, which is what I most take from Frank McGuinness' new “version” (who did the translation, then, eh?) directed by Iain Glen with wonderful Lesley Sharp as […]
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