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Posted in "Put money in my purse!", Actors, Macbeth on May 12th, 2008
American Theater Wing, founder of the Tony Awards, has posted an audio interview with Patrick Stewart, who is currently playing Macbeth on Broadway…put money in my purse!
For those of you who, like me, alack, cannot afford the plane & theater tickets, the link to the interview, at least, is here.
Posted in Actors on Mar 21st, 2008
Paul Scofield, one of the greatest actors of the twentieth century, has passed away at 86.
Known as a quiet, reclusive man, Scofield rarely gave interviews and refused a knighthood in the 1960s. His acting spoke for him. His Oscar-winning performance as Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons is a family favorite, a rich [...]
Branagh and McGregor appeared on the British interview show “Parkinson.” Branagh is talking about “Sleuth” and McGregor discusses his performance as Iago in a stage production of Othello.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVZmdDDVInA
Praise God and pass the remote! According to this article by Brian Scott-Lipton, posted on Theatermania.com, RSCs recent production of King Lear, directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Sir Ian (and Romola Garai as Cordelia), is to be broadcast on PBS this fall and the Beeb in December. A DVD is also to be released, [...]
Posted in McKellen, Richard III on Jan 2nd, 2008
Directed by Richard Loncraine
Starring Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, and Robert Downey Jr.
Bunch-Back’d Toad
Audiences nowadays most likely know him as either Magneto from the X-Men movies or (if you have better taste) as Gandalf from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He’s known to a smaller but equally devoted crowd as one of the [...]
Shakespeare's Othello meets Spenser's Faerie Queene in this new and provocative mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.