* Rory Kinnear will play Bill Tanner in Quantum of Solace, the next Bond film. Bill has previously been played by Michael Goodliffe, James Villiers and Michael Kitchen. Rory's upcoming projects include The Long Walk to Finchley and The Curse of Steptoe; and recent theatre work includes Philistines and The Man of Mode. [article ( Read more... )

* Sam Riley and Rory Kinnear are featured in the Telegraph's "Twenty top talents".

* Simon Russell Beale will play Undershaft in the National Theatre's production of Major Barbara, which also stars OBFAs Hayley Atwell (who probably won't be obscure for much longer) and Clare Higgins.

* Dealer's Choice, which has transferred from the Menier Chocolate ( Read more... )

Firstly I have had the wonderful pleasure of meeting lots of Darcylicious members, intentionally, and unexpectedly, while seeing Matthew Macfadyen in The Pain And The Itch on 30th June and 7th July at the Royal Court theatre in London. They were all as lovely as I knew they would be. The people you meet online are pretty much the same in real life ( Read more... )

The Pain and the Itch started previews yesterday at the Royal Court. I won't be able to go see it but I do hope some of you lovelies will and report back with extensive reviews! I found this on darcylicious though, a Matthew Macfadyen fansite:http://www.darcylicious.com/drupal/

The Observer has a fabulous article appropriately titled "Why Britannia still rules the stage". Here are links:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
OBAs featured include Stephen Campbell Moore, Hugh Bonneville, Damian Lewis, Rufus Sewell and Matthew Macfadyen; and Patron Saints Samuel West, Toby Stephens and Tom Hollander.

At my blog, I've put together lots of links ( Read more... )

A good review of The Last Confession, which is playing at the Chichester Festival Theatre and stars David Suchet and Michael Jayston
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/05/09/btvenom109.xml&DCMP=EMC-art_11052007

Life is a pilot that has been picked up by NBC. It stars Damian Lewis. Article from the Hollywood Reporter is here. ( Read more... )

News from Whatsonstage"...Actor-turned-director Samuel West will return to the stage for the first time since his shock, pre-Christmas announcement that he would step down as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres (See News, 21 Dec 2006). He’ll star - along with Dervla Kirwan and Toby Stephens - in the Donmar Warehouse’s summer revival of Nobel ( Read more... )

[post updated January 2009]
... which you may or may not feel inclined to squee at.

Death At A Funeral was shown at the AFM in Santa Monica recently. Various articles indicate that there was quite a lot of demand for it, which is good. Linkage:
http://darcylicious.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/13
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/ ( Read more... )

I posted this on the Matthew Macfayen community but whitelilacs07 suggested that I should post here! I am still not convinced that he is obscure anymore but maybe is outside of UK!!

Here is a small audio clip of Matthews narration of the Nuremberg Trials currently being shown on BBC2 in the UK.

Thanks to cubbie866 for making them, click on the link to go to the ( Read more... )

Alright, alright. For dietcokebreak and every other secret Rupert lover out there...... (no, not that Rupert...)

I will try to make amends for a lack of a certain shy spy.....

(and a few others)

( Please swallow before clicking. (that says 'not work safe,' doesn't it?) )