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Noel Cowards's Private Lives wins over the critics
Sex and the City temptress Kim Cattrall is the talk of the town as her West End play proves a huge hit.
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Month: March 2010
Whats On Stage
Feature: Best of This Week’s Theatre Blogs – 05 Mar 2010
By some clear distance the most contested blog post of the week was Charlotte Higgins’ defence of public arts funding on the Guardian Theatre Blog. With commentors overwhelmingly rejecting Higgins’ argument it was, as Tangled […]
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Interview: Brief Encounter With … Party Animals Tim Key & Tom Basden
Award-winning comedians Tim Key and Tom Basden are currently starring in the London transfer of Basden’s play Party at the Arts Theatre.Both are members of the comedy group Cowards (along with Lloyd Woolf and Stefan […]
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Round-up: Review Round-up: Critics Seduced by Private Lives
Noel Coward’s enduringly popular comedy Private Lives has returned to the West End in a starry production led by Sex and the City siren Kim Cattrall and recent Mr Darcy Matthew Macfadyen, helmed by former […]
BBC News - Arts and Culture
Tudor portrait reveals secret snake
A mysterious image of a coiled snake has appeared in a 16th century painting of Queen Elizabeth I, the National Portrait Gallery has said. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8550119.stm
Blogs
Blog: Vermin plaguing theatres, claim Equity. Is it that serious?
An Equity survey claims more than three quarters of West End performers and stage managers confirm there's a vermin problem in the workplace. […]
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News: Cast: Pilkington in 39 Steps, McGowan’s Cocktails
Dianne Pilkington, currently starring as Glinda in Wicked at the Apollo Victoria, will move across town to the Criterion when she joins the new cast of The 39 Steps from 26 April 2010. Pilkington, who […]
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Theatre Review: King Lear – RSC – Courtyard Theatre
Rupert Bridgwater reviews RSC’s King Lear and discovers a bold and magnificent all round production. […]
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Review: Private Lives
At first, the audience thinks Kim Cattrall has withered inside herself. But this pinched, slightly hunched pretty blonde woman is not Kim, but Lisa Dillon, superbly well cast as Elyot Chase’s second wife, Sybil, and […]
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Photos: 1st Night Photos: Cattrall & MacFadyen in Private
Sex and the City siren Kim Cattrall made a welcome return to the London stage last night (3 March 2010, previews from 24 February), starring opposite Matthew MacFadyen in Richard Eyre’s revival of Noel Coward’s […]