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He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it again There's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itself...
SEATTLE-- LIKE a reminder of theater's past, the face of the playwright August Wilson stares out from a gleaming glass door set in a 12-foot steel portal at the top of August Wilson Way here, a sloping side street behind the...
In response to dhobikikutti , my original prompts looked like this (wiht antecedants clarified in the first one.) If a hypothetical person would like to know anything else, ask and I'll be glad to try to answer. Tom Stoppard -...
Alan Bennett's new play The Habit of Art has opened to rave reviews at the National Theatre. Sex has always been one of the big themes of Alan Bennett's work Photo: Eamonn McCabe A few years ago, I had to present Alan Bennett...
Classes on goodies and baddies, endless rows about jokes in poor taste . . . is an increasingly cautious BBC suffocating new comedy and drama? Mark Lawson on the climate of fear at Broadcasting House On Saturday, it will be one...
The star of Stephen Poliakoff's forthcoming Glorious 39 on his neuroses, playing educated toffs and why he digs David Hare "A machiavellian dandy . . . Pure coldheartedness . . . Fabulously insincere." As I read out reviews of...
The Prince William Little Theatre performs this play by Tom Stoppard, the British scribe behind "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and the co-screenwriter of "Shakespeare in Love." "Arcadia" is set in two time periods at...
While I don't necessarily view our humble mag/website/blog/video juggernaut in opposition to the Great Grey -Green, Greasy Lady, we have since 1968 been counter-programming against the dominant media tropes of our times, from...
There was champagne, which was entirely in character, and God, which was not. But as Lord Kinnock told the congregation at the late author’s memorial service yesterday, Sir John Mortimer was nothing if not a man of contradiction.
Student activism has often fired resistance to repression – and it must urgently do so now Twenty years ago yesterday the Velvet Revolution got under away in Czechoslovakia with a student march that was brutally suppressed by...
