Just booked to see Anthony Head in Trafalgar Studios in a new play, Ticking. Reviews have not been great but hey, Tony Head! <3 ( Read more... )

Saw Macbeth yesterday.

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Went to see "Henry IV" at the Donmar today, the second of of Phyllida Lloyd/Harriet Walter's planned trilogy of all-female prison Shakespeare after a great Julius Caesar last year. (I wonder what they have planned to close out the trilogy. My money's on Lear.)

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Saw Martin Freeman in Richard III at Trafalgar Studios. Liked it very much ( Read more... )

If you are still in the Barbican queue for Cumberhamlet tix, try ATG which still has stalls tickets and no queue. It's legit - the producers get their own allocation of tickets. Best availability Sep/Oct.

Online booking was a some six-hour odyssey of untold proportions, but Cumberbatch Hamlet tickets have been obtained, oh yes. For October. Of NEXT YEAR.

PSA: You can now buy the Globe's The Tempest with Colin Morgan as Ariel on DVD.

Just booked for Martin Freeman in Richard III at Trafalgar Studios later this year. He'd be great for the role I think. He of course has the really innocuous look about him, which I think is absolutely crucial to play the role to its gleeful villain hilt ( Read more... )

Watching the BBC2 broadcast of the National Theatre 50 year celebration. (Would have so loved to attend but tickets began at £300 and I'm pretty sure only by allotment, so... BBC2 it is.) Benedict Cumberbatch just did a wonderful scene from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and now I'm really, really, really wishing he would do the whole ( Read more... )

Did anyone else catch the NTLive screening last night of Kenneth Branagh/Alex Kingston's Macbeth at Manchester International? I spent half the production wondering why Malcolm looked so familiar until I finally figured out he was adult Mordred from s5 Merlin. Ha!

( musings on this production vs James McAvoy vs Patrick Stewart vs McKellen/Dench )