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Glass reviews American Idiot at the Arts Theatre, London

August 5, 2016

TO call Green Day’s staged version of their 2004 concert album American Idiot a musical might be a little misleading. It’s more like a couple of hours of a concept album brought to life and its best e...

Glass reviews I Have Been Here Before by JB Priestley at Jermyn Street Theatre, London

Gabriella Crewe-Read

May 18, 2016

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

ANTHONY Biggs production of I Have Been Here Before feels a little like the black and white movie that you start watching at home on a rainy afternoon because you suddenly find yourself with nothing else to do....

Glass reviews the play X at The Royal Court Theatre

Gabriella Crewe-Read

April 13, 2016

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

X IS A rare thing – a genuinely scary play. Not in a slow-drip psychological torture kind of way, but in a haunted house, ghost train, pitch black, scary music, I have just grabbed-the-hand-of-the-stranger besi...

Midlands to Midsomer: Glass interviews Manjinder Virk

Gabriella Crewe-Read

January 12, 2016

Don't Miss: Film, Feature, Television

Manjinder Virk is a name worth remembering. She’s the kind of actress who has been quietly laying the foundation for a long and substantial career. Parts in Holby City and Call the Midwife have paved the way fo...

Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape, at The Old Vic, London reviewed

Gabriella Crewe-Read

November 20, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Television

Things have changed at The Old Vic. The freshly painted foyer with its pink neon sign Dare, Always Dare illuminating the entrance, screams new life. Matthew Warchus’ inaugural season as newly appointed artistic...

Review – Hecuba by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford

Gabriella Crewe-Read

October 16, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, News

Stratford at this time of year is beautiful. October mists, the pavement littered with the glowing reds and oranges of fallen leaves and the air tinged with the suspense of winter yet to come. Deputy Royal Shak...

No doubting this Tom – Glass meets British actor Tom Brittney

Gabriella Crewe-Read

July 21, 2015

Culture, Don't Miss: Film, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

A lucky combination of classic good looks and on screen versatility means Tom Brittney is fast emerging as a star on the horizon, and has every chance of being here to stay. In the middle of filming original dr...

In the fast lane with O-T Fagbenle

Gabriella Crewe-Read

June 24, 2015

Don't Miss: Film, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

O-T Fagbenle is a man on the move. Currently performing in the BBC One crime drama The Interceptor where he plays Special Agent Marcus “Ash” Ashton, a customs officer recruited into a secret bran...

A game of (two) thrones – Glass interviews actor de jour Iwan Rheon

Gabriella Crewe-Read

June 2, 2015

Don't Miss: Film, Feature

Welsh Actor Iwan Rheon is best known for his role as the sadistic torturer Ramsay Snow in HBO’s screen adaption of George RR Martin’s novel Game of Thrones. The series, currently in its fifth season, ...

Glass interviews Marianne Oldham the star of BBC WW1 drama The Crimson Field

Gabriella Crewe-Read

April 9, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Television, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Glass Talents

Life does indeed resemble art when I interview Marianne Oldham in late December 2013. Having just wrapped from two months filming six one-hour episodes of the Sarah Phelps-penned drama The Crimson Fie...

Shakespearification

Gabriella Crewe-Read

November 14, 2013

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

Prepare to be Shakespearified. Now I know that isn’t a word – yet – but changes are afoot at the RSC and perhaps we need a new term to celebrate them. This week, Richard II, starring David Tennant, will be ...

First and foremost

Gabriella Crewe-Read

September 25, 2013

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature

Rory Kinnear is a fine actor. The plaudits have piled in for his both his classical theatre work and film work alike. He has played everything from Hamlet to Iago to Bill Tanner in Skyfall to Dennis Thatche...

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