Twelfth Night News

A few big-name actors from the Eastern States will help WA's flagship theatre company mark its swan-song year at the Playhouse Theatre before it moves into its new home in Northbridge.

Mayflower Theatre, Southampton will present Scrooge with Tommy Steele starring. Tommy Steele, returns to the role that he has made his own - Ebenezer Scrooge, in the record-breaking London Palladium production of Scrooge.

The greatest acting on the London stage, the stalking of a Wagnerian soprano and the emerging spirit of Edinburgh.

I took in Idaho Shakespeare Festival 's preview performance of Twelfth Night several weeks ago.

A reader alerted me to the fact that Ovation is showing a whole lot of Shakespeare , 7L30 and 8 p.m. Saturday Aug.

Shakespeare and other classic drama productions are being sold as Hollywood- style sex-and-violence epics by the Royal Shakespeare Company to woo young audiences.

Wouldn't it be fun to think that the Bard suffered from writer's block, that he received a shove from "Kit" Marlowe to get the old plot-ball rolling, that he stole lines from soap-box orators, that he was rewriting his deathless dialogue daily during rehearsals, that one of the actors in the troupe could suggest off the top of his head a better ...

Thursday, July 16th, from 5:30-8:30 PM, come celebrate the summer with music, comedy and food! $10.00 in advance will get you into a show at the American Legion in North Adams that features local musicians Michael Quinones and Gillian Jones playing tunes from Woodstock in addition to improv comedy by The Royal Berkshire Improv Troupe and sketch ...

Stephensa TM 7/7 play, Pornography , receives its London premiere at the Tricycle Theatre where it runs from August 6 to August 29, 2009.

"like someone reached into my body to rip my muscles apart with a fork" enlarge It'd be difficult to get a coherent description of the sensation from, say, the bull, eight dogs, and a Welsh sheep who, according to Freedom of Information Act statistics, are among those who have been Tasered by police since the introduction of the 50,000-volt ...

Back in 2002 Sam Mendes departed the Donmar Warehouse after 10 brilliant years as artistic director with a double bill of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya .

NEW YORK, June 7 'Billy Elliot,' the story of a working-class English lad who yearns for the higher-brow life of a ballet star, danced away with the Tony Award for best musical last night, during a ceremony in which it swept 10 of the coveted trophies.

The London import, with music by Elton John, was the big winner at the 63rd annual awards show, which also celebrated the crowning of Yasmina Reza's 'God of Carnage' as the Broadway season's best new play.

In the most authentically endearing moment of the evening, the three young dancer-actors who rotate in and out of the role of Billy -- David Alvarez, Kiril Kulish and Trent Kowalik -- awkwardly tried to express their joy as they shared the award for best actor in a musical. It was a three-way division of the trophy unprecedented in Tony history.

What a thrill to watch actors of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company - accomplished performers all - as they come back to study the text of their noble kinsman William Shakespeare at the knee of the illustrious director John Barton.

Also joining the company are Katy Secombe as Rosie and Norman Bowman and Christopher Hollis as Donna's former boyfriends, Sam Carmichael and Bill Austin .

Though typecast as aristocratic heroines in solemn period films in the early part of her career, London-born actress Helena Bonham Carter struggled hard to prove her range and break free of her corseted mold.

We screen a star-strewn four-DVD set of RSC acting workshops under the title "Playing Shakespeare"; the adventurous "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"; Samuel Goldwyn's "A Song Is Born" and "The Goldwyn Follies." John Barton, who co-founded the Royal Shakespeare Company with Peter Hall in 1960, has spent decades studying, teaching and directing ...

THEATRE / Just mad about the boy: Coriolanus - Swan, Stratford; Twelfth Night - Royal Shakespeare, Stratford; After Easter - The Other Place, Stratford; Arcadia - Haymarket; The Lodger - Hampstead IRVING WARDLE IT IS the word 'boy' that seals the hero's fate in Coriolanus.

Actress Imogen Stubbs is performing in Oxford this week for the first time since her student days.

Series 1 - 19.99 RRP - The first series of this Coronation Street spin-off comes to DVD for the first time.