This week on my Twitter feed, one theatre trip to Saved does my mental health no good at all, while a sunny day in Stratford Upon Avon and another theatre trip to Marat/Sade helps improve things; then the Daily Mail gets offended, meaning Marat/Sade must have been good. And Joss Whedon announces his Much Ado About Nothing movie, sending the ( Read more... )

This week on my Twitter feed, the X Factor tweets are getting overwhelming which means the horror of the live shows can't be far off, but I still found time to tweet about a couple of other TV shows and a bit of Dame Theatre ( Read more... )

Just a quick note on Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe as my earlier review of the show still stands. Tonight's was the performance I'd initially booked for but I also went a couple of weeks ago to catch Eve Best as Beatrice before she left the show. Seeing how packed it was tonight I'm sure I could have returned my ticket but I enjoyed it enough ( Read more... )

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In keeping with 2011's theatrical theme of multiple productions of the same Shakespeare play, there's two competing Much Ados running all summer. First up for me is Josie Rourke's production at Wyndham's, the one people are referring to as "T&T" because it reunites former Doctor Who pairing David Tennant and Catherine Tate as Benedick and Beatrice ( Read more... )

Pretty much back to my usual amount of tweeting this week, with the usual mix of sleb spots, ranting and unsuccessful attempts to twitter-flirt with Russell Tovey (look, if he goes around tweeting about his nipples, he knows damn well what's going to happen ( Read more... )

So there I am having a quick look at my LJ information and it turns out that I'd made 1999 journal entries in the nearly-five-years I've had this blog. I figured I should do something to mark this 2000th post or it would just end up being a random theatre review without me noticing. I guess the obvious thing to do would be some kind of look back, ( Read more... )

Nicholas Hytner's new production of Much Ado About Nothing boasts two star names - to most people he's an unknown but in the West End (and, apparently, on Broadway) Simon Russell Beale is pretty much royalty. Zoë Wanamaker on the other hand is another theatre veteran, but is best-known as the star of the inexplicably popular sitcom My Family. So to ( Read more... )