By Ed Caesar for GQ, 20 January 2015 From Shakespeare to Steven Spielberg, the actor his peers agree is the greatest of his generation is breaking character and stepping off the stage to lend his gifts to two Hollywood blockbusters (and playing Thomas Cromwell in the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall). When GQ met theatre’s star turn we found a man powered by inner conflict […]
Anita Singh, The Telegraph June 1, 2014 Dame Judi Dench is to star opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Richard III after the Sherlock actor ambushed her during a Shakespeare masterclass. The veteran actress will play Queen Margaret to Cumberbatch’s hunchbacked monarch in a BBC production this autumn. Appearing before an audience on the final day of the Hay Festival, in conversation […]
Reuters, AP May 30, 2014 WASHINGTON – William Shakespeare excoriated Richard III, the last king of England to die in battle, more than 500 years ago, with vibrant verbiage: a “foul bunch-back’d toad,” “deformed, unfinish’d” and a hunchback so ugly that dogs barked as he passed by. But the bard seems to have missed the mark, scientists said Thursday. Their comprehensive […]
Kenneth Turan, LA Times May 8, 2014 As much as theater and film have in common, and that’s a lot, their core differences can be formidable. A film is the same every time you see it, while “the thrill of theater” says Sam Mendes, who has worked in both arenas, “is that fact that it’s alive, happening once only in […]
Tenley Woodman, Boston Herald April 28, 2014 ‘House of Cards” star Kevin Spacey is a bit of a Hollywood maverick. The two-time Academy Award winner left Tinseltown a decade ago to become artistic director at The Old Vic theater in London. “Over a long period of time, certainly since I started to do well in film … people look at […]
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