Charles Edwards - Blithe Spirit touring North America, Arthur & George, Clarence Derwent Award

Charles will reprise his role as Charles Condomine in a North American tour of Blithe Spirit, from December until March 2015 (the Hollywood Reporter). The tour begins in Los Angeles (Ahmanson Theatre, 9 December--18 January), followed by performances in San Franciso (Golden Gate Theatre, 20 January-1 February), Toronto (Princess of Wales Theatre, 10 February-15 March) and Washington DC (National Theatre, 17-29 March). The play's official website has further details about tickets.

Charles has filmed Arthur & George, a three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes’ novel for ITV. Martin Clunes stars as Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles plays Doyle's manservant, Alfred ‘Woodie’ Wood. The cast includes Emma Fielding and Hattie Morahan. Filming locations include the Black Country Living Museum and Cogges Manor Farm (1|2).


He received a Clarence Derwent Award from Equity for the role of Charles Marsden in Strange Interlude. The awards recognise the best individual male and female performances in supporting role in a production in the West End; previous recipients include Fenella Woolgar, Phil Davis and Timothy West. This year's Awards were presented on Thursday 13 November at the Duke of York’s Theatre. Click here for pictures from the event.

Television - In Love with Shakespeare, BBC Radio

Stephen Campbell Moore, John Simm and Sam West will perform speeches from Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Richard II in In Love With Shakespeare, a 30 minute program which will be broadcast on Sky Arts 28 May (via The Stage).

BBC Radio

• John Simm will be interviewed on Loose Ends
• David Morrissey will be interviewed on Front Row
• Toby Jones and Dina Lorzun star in the series 10 premiere of From Fact to Fiction
• Tamsin Greig and Alex Jennings star in the Afternoon Play That's Mine, This is Yours
• Hattie Morahan reads "The Happy Valley" by Daphne du Maurier
• Fenella Woolgar reads the Book of the Week Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949
• Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Macfadyen are the readers for Words and Music "Self-Improvement"

Scene & Heard, BBC Radio

Patrons Hugh Bonneville and Sam West attended a performance of the Scene & Heard production Twist and Turn. Tweets:

@hughbon: "Fabulous eve with @exitthelemming & other proud patrons at http://t.co/8hJGUpU - 11 yr olds writing astonishing short plays."

@exitthelemming: "Beautiful evening at @SceneandHeardUK. Simon Scardifield played 10 parts. Countess of Wessex, @hughbon & other supporters v pleased & proud."

BBC Radio

• Claudie Blakley and Tony Haygarth are the readers for Words and Music "Idleness"
• Dan Stevens, Malcolm Sinclair and Tom Goodman-Hill star in the Drama on 3 A Thousand Kisses
• Sean Gallagher and Fenella Woolgar star in the Afternoon Play My Life Is a Series of People Saying Goodbye
• Toby Jones reads the Book of the Week Ken Campbell: The Great Caper
• Matt Smith, Tamsin Greig and Alan Bennett will be guests on The 4 O'Clock Show
• Roger Allam, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephanie Cole and John Finnemore star in series 2 of Cabin Pressure {repeat}
• Alex Jennings and Imogen Stubbs star in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Television - Downton Abbey. Television - Boardwalk Empire. Ruth Wilson. Film - Never Let Me Go. Theatre - Deathtrap. BBC Radio.

• Julian Fellowes, Hugh Bonneville, Joanne Froggatt and Gareth Neame will be on the Q&A panel for the Downton Abbey BFI preview screening on 21 September (via C19 - registration required) [link]
  
  
• Kelly Macdonald is featured in a Vanity Fair slideshow about Boardwalk Empire [link]
  
  
• Two weeks ago, Ruth Wilson attended the TCA tour (via Anglophenia). Pictures:
  Getty [link]
  WireImage [link]
  
  
• Stills from Never Let Me Go [link]
  
  
• Deathtrap
• Simon Russell Beale interview from the Guardian [link]
• Promo picture from Playbill [link]
• Screencaps from the play's extended trailer (click thumbnails for full size):
  
  
  
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Blake Ritson, Harry Lloyd and Burn Gorman star in the Afternoon Play Unauthorised History: The Killing [link] 
• William Beck, Alison Pettitt and Fenella Woolgar star in the Classic Serial No Highway [link]
• Benjamin Whitrow, Bryan Dick and Christina Cole star in series 2 of the Woman's Hour Drama Dear Mr Spectator [link]

Hayley Atwell - Film - Captain America. Television - The Prisoner. Theatre - Enron. Theatre - The Real Thing. Film - Made in Dagenham.

• Hayley Atwell will play Peggy Carter in Captain America: The First Avenger [link]
  
  
• Ruth Wilson and Hayley Atwell interviews for The Prisoner 1|2|3
  
  
• Enron
• The original cast will leave the West End production in May [link]
• Video from nj.com [link]
• Lucy Prebble interviews from Crain's New York Business and Papermag crain's|papermag
  
  
• Scans of The Real Thing program [link]
  
  
• Dagenham Girls, starring Sally Hawkins, Andrea Riseborough and Rosamund Pike, has been retitled Made in Dagenham. The film will be distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. [link]

Theatre - The Real Thing. Samuel West - Cultural Capital. Theatre - Enron - Broadhurst. Rosamund Pike - Television - Women in Love. Hayley Atwell. Theatre - Born Yesterday. Television - Any Human Heart. BBC Radio.

[updated 30 March]

• The Real Thing
• Rehearsal photos [link]
• Hattie Morahan "Cultural Life" interview from the Independent [link]
  
  
• Sam attended the Cultural Capital: A Manifesto for the Future launch on Thursday.
• Articles from the Evening Standard, the BBC, the Independent and the Guardian evening standard|bbc|independent|guardian
• The manifesto is available for download from MLA [link]
  
  
• Enron (Broadway)
• Pictures of the cast, writer Lucy Prebble and director Rupert Goold at Friday's photocall 1|2|3|4
• Lucy Prebble, Rupert Goold and cast members Norbert Leo Butz and Stephen Kunken will take part in a discussion with Tom Santopietro at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Noble on Thursday 22 April at 5pm (via Theatermania) [link]
  
  
• From Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column:
  
  Rosamund Pike will play Gudrun Brangwen in a BBC4 adaptation of Women in Love.
  
  Hayley Atwell may star in a Broadway production of Born Yesterday - confirmation is dependent on co-star Chris Noth's availability.
  Hayley will play Freya in Channel 4's miniseries adaptation of Any Human Heart by William Boyd.
  
  
• BBC Radio
• Tamsin Greig and Neil Pearson are the readers for Words and Music "The South Country" [link]
• David Suchet and Anna Francolini star in the Woman's Hour Drama David Golder [link]
• Emma Thompson will be on Desert Island Discs [link]
• Maggie Steed, Justine Waddell and Julian Rhind-Tutt star in Mrs Warren's Profession [link]

Theatre - The Pride. Lucy Prebble. Theatre - The Real Thing. Samuel West - Radio - Bomber. Dan Stevens - Audio - War Horse. BBC Radio.

• Andrea Riseborough, Ben Whishaw and Hugh Dancy were on the Leonard Lopate Show discussing The Pride (via mcctheater) [link]
• Lucy Prebble profile from the Telegraph [link]
• Toby Stephens, Hattie Morahan and Fenella Woolgar will star in The Real Thing at the Old Vic, 21 April-5 June 2010 (previews from 10 April) [link]
• Bomber and War Horse are featured in this article from the Guardian. Here are excerpts:
  

  "...I came across this classic [Bomber] and can report that it's just as riveting second time round...
  ...ever since I heard him read AL Kennedy's Day, I have become a loyal follower of Dan Stevens, he of the chameleon voice that makes you laugh or cry at a stroke. No need to ask what Stevens reading this heart-rending story [War Horse] did to me..."

• BBC Radio
• Andrew Scott and Dave Fishley star in The Wire Look Closer [link]
• Lorcan Cranitch and Alex Jennings star in the Afternoon Play Shakespeare's Vortigern and Rowena (via the AJ Diaries) [link]
• Timothy Spall and Cheryl Campbell star in Jagged Prayer [link]
• Damian Lewis narrates Agent Zig Zag [link]

Theatre - Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Theatre - Enron. Theatre - A Streetcar Named Desire.

[updated 27 November]

Winners at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards include Rupert Goold (Sydney Edwards award for best director - Enron, Royal Court), Rachel Weisz (Natasha Richardson award for best actress - A Streetcar Named Desire, Donmar Warehouse) and Alia Bano (Charles Wintour award for most promising playwright - Shades, Royal Court).

Guests at the event include Hayley Atwell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Amanda Drew, Rupert Goold, Peter Hall, Tom Hollander, Rory Kinnear, Lucy Prebble, Simon Russell Beale, Laura Wade, Sam West, Ruth Wilson and Fenella Woolgar.

Articles
whatsonstage.com 1|2
Evening Standard [link]
The Stage [link]
The Guardian [link]
The Independent [link]

Pictures
wooller.com [link]
Evening Standard [link]
Rex Features [link]
Wireimage [link]
Getty [link]

Videos
Evening Standard [link]
elizabethtoni 1|2

Dan Stevens - Radio - Guilty Until Proved Innocent. BBC Radio.

• The broadcast date for the Afternoon Play Guilty Until Proved Innocent has been changed to Monday 14 December [link]
• BBC Radio
• The Complete Smiley continues with the Classic Serial Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy starring Simon Russell Beale (as George Smiley), Anna Chancellor and Alex Jennings [link]
• Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff star in Fact to Fiction "Jam Today?" [link]
• Hugh Bonneville narrates the Book at Bedtime Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village [link]
  
• Rory Kinnear and Fenella Woolgar star in the Afternoon Play Flaw in the Motor, Dust in the Blood [link]

Entertainment news

• Clips:
  
• New Moon, featuring Michael Sheen as Aro [link]
• Bright Star, featuring Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider and Abbie Cornish [link]
  
• Colin Firth will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Outstanding Performance Of The Year Award for A Single Man [link]
• Article by Samantha Morton from the Guardian [link]
  
• Noah Taylor and Sally Hawkins have been cast in Submarine, starring Michael Sheen and Paddy Considine [link]
• Steven Soderbergh, John Simm, Jane Campion, Matt Damon and Colin Firth interviews steven|john|jane|matt|colin
  
• Ricky Gervais will host the Golden Globes [link]
• Woody Allen's latest film has a title, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. The film stars Naomi Watts, Anthony Hopkins and Fenella Woolgar. [link]
• Video of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant promoting the Hollywood Disabilities Forum [link]
  
• Upcoming plays by Laura Wade include Alice (Sheffield) and Posh (Royal Court) 1|2

Hayley Atwell - Television - The Pillars of the Earth. Samuel West - Narration - High Flight. Carey Mulligan. BBC Radio drama.

[updated 19 March 2011]

The Pillars of the Earth official website has been updated.

Sam will narrate poetry by John Gillespie Magee for the BBC Radio 4 documentary High Flight, which will be broadcast in November (via United Agents) [link]
(Sam has previously narrated poetry by Magee - a clip of "High Flight" is here.)

Carey is featured in People's 25 Under 25: Hollywood's Hottest Young Stars (via ONTD) and Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column 1|2

• BBC Radio drama
• Julian Rhind-Tutt and Hattie Morahan star in the Drama on 3 The Twyborn Affair [link]
• The Complete Smiley continues with the Classic Serial The Looking Glass War starring Simon Russell Beale (as George Smiley), Ian McDiarmid, Patrick Kennedy and Fenella Woolgar [link]
• Rory Kinnear and Benedict Cumberbatch star in the Afternoon Play Good Evening [link]
• Dominic Cooper narrates A Land Without Magic for Big Toe Books [link]

Rosamund Pike - Film - Jackboots on Whitehall. Toby Stephens, Bill Nighy. BBC Radio 4 drama.

• Director Ed McHenry mentions Rosamund in an interview from Netribution:

  "...Rosamund Pike is a fantastic actress, the best British actress at the moment, she has a fantastic voice..."

• An excerpt from this week's BBC Radio 7 newsletter:

  "...In my newsletter 3 weeks ago, I asked you to nominate your "Top 10 Favourite Voices", and you sent in a most interesting selection.
  
  There were 63 nominated readers in all.
  
  As some readers received equal votes, there are actually 12 in our final list. (although the listener who nominated the same reader 10 times was only allowed one vote - you know who you are!)
  
  Top of the list, by a margin, was Michael Jayston, with particular mention of his readings of Rogue Male and Rogue Justice.
  
  Second equal were Martin Jarvis and Toby Stephens.
  
  In third place were: Bill Nighy, Juliet Stevenson, Stephen Fry and Derek Jacobi.
  
  In fourth place were Alan Bennett, Alex Jennings, Anna Massey, Geoffrey Palmer and Robert Powell.
  
  If none of the names you nominated made the top 10 (or rather 12) I hope you won’t be upset, as this poll was simply a bit of fun..."

• BBC Radio 4 drama:
• Sian Phillips, Corey Johnson, Fenella Woolgar and Raad Rawi star in the Afternoon Play Hindenburg [link]
• Freddy White and Jemima Rooper star in the Saturday Play Phone [link]
  
• James Fleet and Lizzy Watts star in the Afternoon Play Fireflies [link]
• Peter Capaldi, Ed Stoppard and Dominic Cooper narrate the Afternoon Reading The Heart of Saturday Night [link]

Entertainment news

• Anne-Marie Duff will be in the second season of The Bridge Project [link]
  
• David Cronenberg is going to direct an adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel Cosmopolis [link]
• Bright Star, The Damned United, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, An Education and Glorious 39 will be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival [link]
  
• Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall are going to star in The Town, directed by Ben Affleck [link]
  
• Photos of Naomi Watts and Fenella Woolgar on the set of Woody Allen's currently untitled film (via IMDB) [link]
  
• Geoffrey Rush was awarded the Australian Film Institute's Raymond Longford Award [link]
• Tilda Swinton & Mark Cousins film festival awesomeness 1|2|3
  
• David Tennant, Rupert Grint, Euros Lyn & Russell T Davies, Sophie Okonedo, director Serhat Caradee and playwright Tommy Murphy interviews david|rupert|euros & russell|sophie|serhat|tommy
• Article about season 6 of Entourage [link]
• Amusing article by Simon Callow about the technicalities of love scenes [link]
• David Morrissey will be in the next series of Five Days (via The Medium is Not Enough) [link]

Theatre - Time and the Conways

[updated 17 May]



Reviews

The Stage
"...the ever watchable Morahan in a beautifully detailed performance, equally convincing as Kay at 21, full of future hopes, and an elegant if badly bruised 40-year-old hack with time running out.
Key performances also come from Francesca Annis as the maliciously destructive matriarch, Paul Ready as her diffident older son, Mark Dexter portraying the family favourite as a swaggering lout and a fine cameo from Fenella Woolgar as a political idealist who becomes a bitter, disillusioned schoolmistress..."

Telegraph
"...strong performances most notably from Francesca Annis as an apparently loving mother, Hattie Morahan as a young writer who sees glimpses of the future, Fenella Woolgar as a ferocious teacher and Adrian Scarborough as a vicious businessman and husband..."

Financial Times
"...Hattie Morahan and Fenella Woolgar turn in excellent performances..."

Interviews

Hattie Morahan, Official London Theatre Guide [link]
Francesca Annis 1|2|3
Rupert Goold, the Guardian (video includes rehearsal footage, as well as Hattie and Francesca briefly discussing the play) [link]

Pictures

Production:
Rex [link]
Manuel Harlan/National Theatre [link]

Hayley Atwell. Ruth Wilson - Theatre - A Streetcar Named Desire. Hattie Morahan - Theatre - Time and the Conways. Television - Freefall

[updated 19 March 2011]

• Hayley attended the Matthew Williamson for H&M launch party 1|2
• Ruth will play Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar (via Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail column) [link]
• Time and the Conways by J.B. Priestley, starring Francesca Annis, Hattie Morahan and Fenella Woolgar is in previews 28 April-4 May. Press night is 5 May, and the production will run until 27 July [link]
• Freefall (BBC2 Spring/Summer 2009 press pack