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Tue 29 Jun 2021 19.01 EDT It is tempting to compare Bach & Sons with Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, as Nina Raine unpicks the difficult personality of another composer with genius in his veins who died, at least as it is portrayed here, with his musical light undimmed but as a failure in other ways. The similarities end there. Raine presents a middle-aged Bach (Simon Russell Beale) with studiousness and teases out power battles between him and his sons Wilhelm (Douggie McMeekin) and Carl (Samuel...

Four local performers will be giving a staged reading of "Lettice and Lovage" by the English playwright Peter Schaffer this weekend.

Anthony Powell, Oscar-winning designer of exotic costumes for a string of films including Tess, Death on the Nile and 101 Dalmatians – obituary He worked with Glenn Close on her costumes as the fur-crazed Cruella de Vil, for which he exaggerated haute couture styles to comic effect 22 April 2021 • 2:13pm Anthony Powell in 1991 with a drawing of his costume for Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook for the movie Hook Credit: Ian Cook/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Anthony Powell, who has died...

Mank in the Best Picture category. But what of the Academy Awards in days gone past? Which films have won the most trophies or scored the highest number of nominations? And who among the acting cohort has been the most successful when it comes to the event? We decided to dig into the history and look at the most successful films at the Oscars, the performers who have gone home with the most gongs, and a full list of every Best Picture Winner in history so far. Oscar facts! Get yer Oscar facts h...

Faust Ending seeks alternative finale Posted : 2021-03-10 09:18 Updated : 2021-03-11 17:45 A scene from the play "Faust Ending," starring Kim Sung-nyo, right, as Faust, and Park Wan-kyu as Mephistopheles / Courtesy of National Theater Company of Korea Actresses defy gender in classics By Kwon Mee-yoo Goethes "Faust" is considered a masterpiece of German literature, portraying how humanity can be saved despite corruption through strenuous attempts. "Faust Ending," a...

32 shares Reflecting on his early career, Hopkins, who is nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in The Father, told the publication: Booze is a wonderful way of checking out. It has an instant effect - thats why we do it.  In my case I had these peculiar conflicts - I didnt feel I fitted into my own skin. I felt deeply guilty and ashamed and not worthy of the luck Id had as an actor. Fame: The Oscar-winning star, 83, who started his career on stage before soaring to fame in the 1968 mov...

Ronald Pickup, ‘Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ and ‘The Crown’ Star, Dies at 80 Abid Rahman The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel films and played the Archbishop of Canterbury in The Crown, has died. He was 80. His agent told the BBC that Pickup had “passed away peacefully [on Wednesday] after a long illness surrounded by his wife and family.” In a career that spanned over half a century, Pickup was an accomplished theater, film and television actor. On the stage, he starre...

Ronald Pickup, the British actor who starred in  The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel films and played the Archbishop of Canterbury in The Crown, has died. He was 80. His agent told the BBC that Pickup had "passed away peacefully [on Wednesday] after a long illness surrounded by his wife and family." In a career that spanned over half a century, Pickup was an accomplished theater, film and television actor. On the stage, he starred alongside British theater icons such as Laurence Olivier, Ian McK...

Russell T Davies & Irving Welsh praise Joe Millsons book... and it all began in Newbury Everything you’ve never heard about becoming an actor Trish Lee  ); Russell T Davies: This is wonderful. It’s the proper story of an actor’s life – not the champagne and air-kisses, but the graft, the doubt, the debt and sometimes, just sometimes, the bliss.  Irving Welsh: If you are interested in the real life and challenges of a working actor, then this book is absolutely essential. Joe Millson ...

Christopher Plummer, suave Canadian actor best known as von Trapp in The Sound of Music – obituary A gifted classical actor on stage, he was disdainful of his best-known film role, which he said he was ‘dying to send up’ Plummer: liked playing ‘larger-than-life characters’ Credit: Martin Pope Christopher Plummer, the Oscar-winning Canadian actor, who has died aged 91, achieved fame in the early 1950s in a succession of Shakespearean roles, but was best remembered, to his lasting irrit...