News: Broadway shows its respect for theatre critic Barnes

All Broadway theatre marquees will be dimmed for one minute at 8pm tonight (Thursday), in memory of longtime theatre and dance critic Clive Barnes, who passed away yesterday at the age of 81. British-born, Barnes was a fixture of the New York theatre scene for more than 40 years. He became the dance critic for the New York Times in 1965 and...

News: Bond and Glen to star in Radio 3’s Milton season

Samantha Bond and Iain Glen are to star in a new radio production of John Milton's dramatic poem Samson Agonistes. The show forms part of a season celebrating the 400th anniversary of the poet's birth on BBC Radio 3. Samson Agonistes, published in 1671, also stars Philip Madoc and Michael Maloney. It will be broadcast on Radio 3 on Sunday,...

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Kring Talks Up Heroes (again)…

TV Today: I tried with the third season of Heroes , I really did. I thought I’d start afresh, come...

(Sorry we can’t) Imagine This

Newsblog: As I blogged a couple of months ago , it was always going to be a tough sell. Imagine This -...
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Kring Talks Up Heroes (again)…

TV Today: I tried with the third season of Heroes , I really did. I thought I’d start afresh, come at it new and give it another spin. But no, 20 minutes into the season opener and my brain was threatening...

(Sorry we can’t) Imagine This

Newsblog: As I blogged a couple of months ago , it was always going to be a tough sell. Imagine This - the show which will forever be known as ‘the holocaust musical’ - opened at the New London Theatre...

The best plan is not to have one

Grads’ Club: I am feeling particularly proud of myself today after a good audition and yet my excitement feels somewhat marred by a conversation I had this week that has plagued me since. I was asked two questions, in frighteningly quick...

The dimming of a critical light on Broadway….

Shenton’s View: It’s not, of course, the business of critics to be liked, let alone loved. Yet the passing yesterday of Clive Barnes, at the age of 81, has provoked an outpouring of generous tributes: in a video on the New...

Silly Season

TV Today: Words fail me, really (which might be a blessed relief for some of you). Yes, John Sergeant steps down from **Strictly Come Dancing **, saying: “The trouble is that there is now a real danger that I might win...

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