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  • Ben Whishaw West End return confirmed

    I love @polyg. While I was busy getting my beauty sleep Michael Grandage was announcing (and confirming what was rumoured earlier this year) that Mr Whishaw is going to be back on stage at last, and she was busily buying up tickets. It is the new John Logan play Peter and Alice which also stars…

  • Theatre related stuff on TV and Radio June 11-17

    Compiled by Poly Gianniba and posted up late by Rev Stan (sorry) Tuesday June 12 (now available as a podcast from Radio 4 website) 7:15pm on BBC Radio 4: Front Row interviews stage actor Alan Howard. Friday June 15 10pm on BBC Radio 2: Robert Dawes and Michael Simkins are interviewed in the BBC Radio…

  • What a day for London theatre casting announcements

    I don't know, you wait for one exciting casting announcements and three come along at once. First there is Ken Stott in the Lindsay Posner directed Uncle Vanya with Anna Friel and Sam West at the Vaudeville, no less. I've been a fan of Ken Stott's since seeing him in God of Carnage and then…

  • Theatre related stuff on TV and Radio June 5 – 8

    Compiled by Poly Gianniba June 6  9am on BBC Radio 4: Samantha Spiro is interviewed in Midweek about playing  Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. June 8 8pm on Sky Arts 1: Athol Fugard, documentary about the South African playwright Athol Fugard. 10pm on BBC Radio 2: Dominic Savage is…

  • Theatre related stuff on TV and Radio May 28 – June 3

    Compiled by Poly Gianniba. Slim pickings this week, the only theatre related content known in advance are reviews for the production of Antigone at the National Theatre.  The reviews are featured in the following programmes: Night Waves, BBC Radio 3, Wednesday May 30, 10pm Front Row, BBC Radio 4, Thursday May 31, 7:15pm Saturday Review,…

  • Theatre related stuff on TV and Radio May 22 -27

    Compiled by Poly Gianniba Tuesday May 22 7:15pm on BBC Radio 4: Front Row interviews John Simm about his role in Harold Pinter's Betrayal at the Sheffield Crucible. Wednesday May 23 7:15pm on BBC Radio 4: Front Row reviews Chariots of Fire at Hampstead theatre. Thursday May 24 7:15pm on BBC Radio 4: Front Row…

  • Theatre related stuff on TV and Radio May 14 – 20

    Compiled by Poly Gianniba Monday May 14 7:15pm on BBC Radio 4: Front Row, Mark Lawson interviews actors Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths, starring in a new staging of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys. 10:45pm on BBC Radio 3: The Essay, in five programmes this week, writers from Sierra Leone, Brazil, India, Iran and China…

  • Derry’s city of culture 2013 events are shaping up nicely

    It's only a draft programme but there are some interesting propositions in prospect for next year in Derry. Now I'm not kidding myself that I'm going to be hopping back and forth to Northern Ireland but there may be one or two tasty morsels just too delicious too resist…Mark Rylance, David Tennant, a large-scale Titus…

  • Theatre related stuff on TV and Radio May 7 – 13

    Compiled by Poly Gianniba Monday May 7 7pm on Sky Arts 1: Sky Arts at the National Theatre of Wales, a look at Tim Price's play about Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of releasing secret material from the Iraq and Afghan wars. 9pm on BBC4: The King and the Playwright, episode 3. The concluding…

  • Theatre related stuff on TV and Radio Apr 30 – May 6

    Compiled by Poly Gianniba Monday April 30  9pm on BBC4: The King and the Playwright: A Jacobean History, episode 2. Professor James Shapiro's history of Shakespeare in the reign of King James . Macbeth and Coriolanus feature in this episode. Tuesday May 1 9pm on Sky Arts 1: The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2012,…