BWW Review: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Love's Labour's Lost is one of Shakespeare's earlier comedies and has never been one of his more popular plays. Even attempts to make it more appealing by Kenneth Branagh in 2000 by turning it into a musical did little to sway public opinion. Nick Bagnall's production focuses more on slapstick comedy than it does on passion and romance.
BWW Review: THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, Shakespeare's Globe
Third in line in Michelle Terry's first season as Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe is The Two Noble Kinsmen. Directed by Barrie Rutter, the Shakespeare-Fletcher collaboration becomes a lighthearted and wonderfully ironic piece of theatre.
TV: Broadway-Bound THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME Reopens at West End's Gielgud Theatre!
The National Theatre's acclaimed production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time reopened earlier this month, at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End. VIP guests included Alice Levine, Amy Beth Hayes, Amy Molyneaux, Andrew Scott, Billy Bailey, Charlotte Riley, Dave Berry, David Gyasi, El James, Emma Freud, Frances O'Connor, Greg McHugh,Honor Blackman, Ian Glem, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Ivan Massow, Jane Asher & Gerald Scarfe, Jeremy Vine, Joanne Froggatt, Jonathan Bailey, June Whitfield, Kelly Adams, Laura Whitmore, Louise Brealey, Lydia Rose Bewley, Masie Williams, Michel Roux Jr, Natascha McElhone, Reece Shearsmith, Sam Bailey, Samantha Barks, Sarah Solemani, Stephen Wight and Warwick Davis.
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THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME Returns to the West End, Today
Today, 24 June 2014, The National Theatre's multi-award winning production of The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time returns to the West End with a new company at the Gielgud Theatre. With press night on 8 July, the production is currently booking at its new West End home to 14 February 2015. Simon Stephens' adaption of Mark Haddon's novel is directed for the stage by Marianne Elliott.
Theatre503 Closes BREED, 10/16
Theatre503 presents BREED, a new play by Lou Ramsden and directed by Tim Roseman. BREED will run from 21st September - 16th October 2010.
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA Plays Shakespeare's Globe 7/12-9/20
Matthew Dunster will direct the Globe's first full-scale production of Troilus and Cressida this summer, featuring Olivier Award-winner Matthew Kelly as Pandarus, with Laura Pyper and Paul Stocker as the ill fated lovers Troilus and Cressida. Other casting includes Jamie Ballard as Ulysses and Paul Hunter as Thersites. Set during the latter years of the Trojan War, Shakespeare fills his ancient tale with savage comedy, great passion and vivid characters.