‘Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship’, said Samuel Johnson in The Idler. This is the jubilant message of Amelia Bullmore’s ode to youth and female solidarity which will delight women in its hilarious honesty.
“I need a double brandy!” exclaimed the gentleman behind me as we filed out of our seats for the interval at The Almeida. Lindsay Posner directs the world première of Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s adaptation of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
As winter’s gnarled fingers claw at our cores and we battle the last-minute shopping to…
“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, with a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves , and satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.”
“I found myself at the Donmar Warehouse, preparing to watch Phyllida Lloyd’s Julius Caesar – arguably the most masculine of Shakespeare’s plays – performed by an all-female cast.”
“From the mundane to the truly life-changing, the different paths our lives can or could have taken create a spaghetti junction of possible scenarios for the here and now (and future and past).”
The playwright Arthur Wing Pinero (and, yes, Wing really was his middle name, as opposed…
Twelfth Night needs no introduction, but the cast of this production might; there’s a chap called Stephen Fry you might have heard of, and another called Mark Rylance. It caused a frenzy at the Arts desk…
In what appears to be a season of Chekhov fluttering through London’s West End, the latest production boasts an impressive cast on stage…and in the stalls, it would seem…
In an exclusive for Arb-TV, Larry and Al are invited into the dressing room of one Simon Callow for a chat about one of his life-long fascinations, Charles Dickens…
“It’s just a bit of fun.” Rob Brydon takes to the West End stage in Alan Ayckbourn’s 31st play. With a sterling cast and direction by Sir Trevor Nunn, this is light-hearted entertainment for a mainstream audience.
“The rawness of her writing, when performed by two such gifted actors, has a profoundness and power worthy of attention.” Sandi Toksvig’s Bully Boy at the St James Theatre…