Seeing Lear in black and white
James Earl Jones played Shakespeare's tragic king back in the 70s. Surely it's high time the role was offered to a black British actorRoyal role ... James Earl Jones. Photograph: Jane BownWe're in the...
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James Earl Jones has been breaking down barriers since the 1950s. As he prepares to star in an all-black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, he tells Maddy Costa about his absent father, elderly sex – and why his...
View ArticleWhat to say about ... Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Debbie Allen's powerful production boasts an all-black cast and radical 1980s setting, but it's the booming basso of James Earl Jones that leaves the critics breathlessThe West End has already seen a...
View ArticleDriving Miss Daisy – review
Wyndhams Theatre, LondonI think now, as I did when I first saw it in 1988, that Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer prize-winning play is not much more than a pleasing anecdote about the growing amity between a...
View ArticleDriving Miss Daisy; The Veil – review
Wyndhams; Lyttelton, LondonThe car in Driving Miss Daisy is an awkward thing: a wheel and two wooden seats. It's not a vehicle that could have come from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang but it's not a...
View ArticleThe Lion King 3D – review
First released in 1994, Disney's The Lion King proved as popular on stage as it had been in the cinema and it now returns to the big screen in 3D, which adds little except for making the original...
View ArticleTony awards 2012: British team helps Once lead nominations
James Corden also nominated for Broadway's biggest theatre gongs for his role in One Man, Two Guvnors – as is Tracie Bennett, for her turn as Judy GarlandThe National theatre's Broadway version of One...
View ArticleTony awards 2012: what we learned from the nominations
James Corden's comedy versus Philip Seymour Hoffman's tragedy, Seminar and Alan Rickman left out, but Spider-Man and James Earl Jones left in. Has Tony got it right?Predictably (for a somewhat...
View ArticleFace off: Looper and the movie mask trend
From Darth Vader to Judge Dredd, a mask can make a man – and it could prolong the careers of Hollywood's heartthrobsFrom the moment Dredd gets dispatched to clean up a futuristic mess in a...
View ArticleVanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones to reunite for Old Vic's Much Ado
Pair who combined for Driving Miss Daisy to appear as Shakespeare's sparring sweethearts, directed by Mark RylanceAt the age of 75, Vanessa Redgrave might have thought she'd missed her chance to play...
View ArticleToo old for Beatrice and Benedick – or much ado about nothing?
Vanessa Redgrave, 75, and James Earl Jones, 81, are to play the sharp-tongued lovers in an Old Vic production of Shakespeare's comedy. Does age matter on stageVanessa Redgrave is 75 and James Earl...
View ArticleMark Rylance: 'You have to move into the chaos'
His role as Rooster Byron in Jerusalem won him unprecedented acclaim, but there is so much more to Mark Rylance. Artistic director, writer, performer – he is a phenomenon. He talks about all that lies...
View ArticleSeeing Lear in black and white
James Earl Jones played Shakespeare's tragic king back in the 70s. Surely it's high time the role was offered to a black British actorRoyal role ... James Earl Jones. Photograph: Jane BownWe're in the...
View ArticleJames Earl Jones: confessions of Big Daddy
James Earl Jones has been breaking down barriers since the 1950s. As he prepares to star in an all-black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, he tells Maddy Costa about his absent father, elderly sex – and why his...
View ArticleWhat to say about ... Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Debbie Allen's powerful production boasts an all-black cast and radical 1980s setting, but it's the booming basso of James Earl Jones that leaves the critics breathlessThe West End has already seen a...
View ArticleDriving Miss Daisy – review
Wyndhams Theatre, LondonI think now, as I did when I first saw it in 1988, that Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer prize-winning play is not much more than a pleasing anecdote about the growing amity between a...
View ArticleDriving Miss Daisy; The Veil – review
Wyndhams; Lyttelton, LondonThe car in Driving Miss Daisy is an awkward thing: a wheel and two wooden seats. It's not a vehicle that could have come from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang but it's not a...
View ArticleThe Lion King 3D – review
First released in 1994, Disney's The Lion King proved as popular on stage as it had been in the cinema and it now returns to the big screen in 3D, which adds little except for making the original...
View ArticleTony awards 2012: British team helps Once lead nominations
James Corden also nominated for Broadway's biggest theatre gongs for his role in One Man, Two Guvnors – as is Tracie Bennett, for her turn as Judy GarlandThe National theatre's Broadway version of One...
View ArticleTony awards 2012: what we learned from the nominations
James Corden's comedy versus Philip Seymour Hoffman's tragedy, Seminar and Alan Rickman left out, but Spider-Man and James Earl Jones left in. Has Tony got it right?Predictably (for a somewhat...
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