Tag: Simon Russell Beale
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O brave new digital world
Robert Tanitch reviews the RSC’s The Tempest at the Barbican Theatre, London EC2 Shakespeare was a commercial playwright and he always gave the public what they wanted. In 1611 what […]
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Samuel Foote puts his foot right in it
Robert Tanitch reviews Mr Foote’s Other Leg at Hampstead Theatre, London NW3 Samuel Foote (1720-1777), the long-forgotten, one-legged playwright and actor-manager of the Little Theatre in Haymarket, was extremely popular […]
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Sam Mendes’ acclaimed King Lear theatre production in cinemas soon
KING LEAR broadcast to cinemas worldwide as part of National Theatre Live on 1 May 2014 Sam Mendes’ acclaimed National Theatre production of Shakespeare’s KING LEAR with Simon Russell Beale in […]
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Simon Russell appears as Shakespeare’s King Lear at the National Theatre
Robert Tanitch reviews King Lear at National Theatre/Olivier Simon Russell Beale has played a wide range of Shakespearean characters: Falstaff, Timon of Athens, Leontes, Malvolio, Cassius, Benedict, Hamlet, Macbeth, Ariel, […]