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, [...]
Category Archive for 'McKellen'
Richard III (1995)
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 [...]
2007: A Big Year for the Bard
Posted in McKellen, the Bard on stage on Dec 26th, 2007
Paul Taylor of the UK’s Independent has an article on what he considers a stellar year for the Bard…at least in Britain!
He begins:
Shakespeare – unlike the dollar or Amy Winehouse – can claim to have had a very good 2007. True, it’s hard to remember when he last had a bad year, though there have [...]
“Why Brits get the Bard roles in America”
Posted in "Put money in my purse!", McKellen, the Bard on stage on Sep 6th, 2007
The Guardian U.K. has posted a stimulating blog on the question of why we Yanks, especially we bardolatrous Yanks, seem to love those British actors.
(Ah me, Ian McKellen is now doing Lear in NYC…put money in my purse!)
Here’s the article.
Ian Mckellen’s Lear
Posted in "Put money in my purse!", King Lear, McKellen on May 31st, 2007
A good friend of mine is across the pond, as they say, studying abroad in London. As a theater major, she’s doing some exhaustive “homework” taking in a whole slew of London stage productions. Naked Harry Potter, for one (Daniel Radcliffe in Peter Shaffer’s Equus) to which Rachael reports that “he’s definitely growing up.”
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