Just a reminder that this sci fi musical about grief and hope is still available to stream. #theatresky#theatre#theatrethursday
#TheatreThursday The great Maggie Smith as Lady Bracknell in the 1993 production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Aldwych Theatre ... the cast also included Richard E Grant, Claire Skinner, Alex Jennings & Susannah Harker. RIP Maggie Smith
#TheatreThursday Come From Away - a musical about the airline passengers stranded in Gander, Canada, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks - became an unexpected Broadway hit and subsequently toured the US, as well as transferring to London & Australia.
#TheatreThursday Born today in 1931, Ian Holm was a stalwart with the RSC, appearing in Romeo & Juliet, Henry IV & Henry V as well as in the title role in Richard III and in Peter Hall's A Midsummer Night's Dream [as Puck] alongside Charles Laughton.
#TheatreThursday Sophie Tucker performed at several venues in Britain in 1934, at one point with a black eye! She tried to intervene between two women fighting over her autograph in London's West End - and received the black eye for her trouble!!
“I don’t think Hamlet is mad, but at times he must wonder about his sanity because he’s alone in the way he thinks. At moments he does seem to come very close to the edge of real madness.” — Toby Stephens #TobyStephens#TheatreThursday
#TheatreThursday 1951 saw the Broadway opening of the musical The King & I - the casting of Yul Brynner & Gertrude Lawrence [who both won Tony awards for their performances] was hugely successful, but for Lawrence sadly short lived as she died of cancer in 1952 ...
“People were literally dying for what they believed in. It makes our political crisis seem so boring. It’s about people recognising themselves.” #TobyStephens#TheatreThursday 📸 Marc Brenner
“What happened to me when I worked at the @DonmarWarehouse was revelatory. I think a lot of actors hide behind various smokescreens of affectation and there you can't. The difficult thing is letting go of it!” — #TobyStephens#TheatreThursday 📸 Betrayal, 2007, Geraint Lewis
