I went to see the NT Live broadcast of The Lehman Trilogy yesterday evening.

( cut for length, as people probably know what happened to Lehman Brothers )

I just finished reading a book of letters from the National Theatre archives (Dramatic Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of the National Theatre, edited by Daniel Rosenthal), which I found out about via the NT podcast, on which actors did a dramatic reading of some of the letters in the book. The section on the "Nick Hytner years" is relatively ( Read more... )

I wound up doing a bit of early Christmas shopping this weekend, but as I did that shopping in a bookstore, I didn’t escape without also buying something for myself: Balancing Acts, Nicholas Hytner’s new memoir about being artistic director of the National Theatre in London (which came out in the UK earlier in the year, but has just come out here ( Read more... )

http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/media/video/50433-everyman/u85F9BAShDg

Starts screening in the US (and possibly the UK as well, I can't recall) on July 16.

I got an email in my inbox about the upcoming National Theatre season, with this delectable tidbit to kick things off:

Everyman
a new adaptation by Carol Ann Duffy

When Death comes, who will stand by your side?Chiwetel Ejiofor takes the title role. Rufus Norris directs ( Read more... )

All's Well, Much Ado, and Faustus:

http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/08/15/globe-on-screen-trailer-poster/

1. YAY.
2. I am more amused than I ought to be that Entertainment Weekly is doubtless covering this because of the Arthur Darvill connection ( Read more... )

So I meant to post the first of these ages ago, back when I posted my Much Ado "review," but clearly I didn't. But if I'm posting about 1 Henry IV, then I ought to post about the other thing I saw Jamie Parker in this summer, so ( Read more... )