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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 Blenkin), but her research hangs heavily and leaves the drama often inert, speaking its ideas rathe...

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 aged 85, was an internationally acclaimed British costume designer who gave period authenticity to ...

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 here! Which films have won the most Oscars?

'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 Goethe's "Faust" is considered a masterpiece of German literature, portraying how humanity can be saved despite corruption through strenuous attempts. "Faust Ending," a new play by the National Theater Company of Korea (NTCK), twists the iconic ending of the origin...