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Feature film. Theatre critic Tony Wooldrich (O’Brien) and his sidekick cab driver Romeo with a penchant for quoting Shakespeare (Mulhall) investigate a backstage murder apparently linked to Shakespearean...
In this comedy sketch by actor and comedy writer Ed Weeks, theatre critic Solomon Howard reviews two Shakespearean productions: Hamlet at the National Theatre, London and The Tempest at the Putney Brothel....
An Australian sitcom set in a Greek coffee shop of the same name. In this episode Liz takes Jim to see a Shakespeare play. Jim likes it so much he wants to stage Romeo and Juliet in the cafe and pays a...
Literary critic Harold Bloom talks to Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins about his new book Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human. Bloom explains his view that Shakespeare, through his writing, created the...
A burlesque of Macbeth which imagines how the play would be adapted and filmed by an American producer. The New York Times critic, reviewing the London screening, noted ‘The drama ends happily with a...
Discussion series spotlighting prominent women from the theatre. In this episode Linda Winer (Newsday critic) talks to Tina Packer, the founder, president and artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in...
Feature film. The story of Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, the East coast mobster who came to Hollywood in the 1940s to take over the West coast racketeering business, was seduced by its glamour and became...
US arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. In a 45 min item entitled ‘The Theatre Breaks Loose’ directed by David Greene, critic Walter Kerr chronicles the history of theatre from the Greeks to the...
Feature film version of the play. ‘Building on Olivier’s extraordinary stage creation, the film asks less what the cinema can do for the theatre (as with HENRY V and HAMLET) than what the theatre can...
Feature film. London in the 1660s, and a declaration from King Charles II (Rupert Everett) legalising female actors puts the girl-boy specialist Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup) out of a job. His former dresser...
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