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...In 1858 the journalist Edmund Yates was expelled from the Garrick for writing an unflattering portrait of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray....
Lolita Chakrabarti’s rich drama for the RSC comes to London’s Garrick Theatre
...The club’s owner William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington, decided this spring that women would be allowed to join “with immediate effect” as a “positive, necessary and evolving change to enhance and invigorate...
...The book still packs the greater emotional punch. ★★★★☆ To June 17, then the Garrick Theatre, London, September 30-January 6 2024, rsc.org.uk...
...For Williams, it’s been a long time coming. “When I set up the practice 18 years ago, I had a manifesto,” he says....
...“She moves along a wall of pictures, some unattributed and others by William Hogarth or Thomas Gainsborough, gesturing at the changes in skirt shape....
...“David Garrick’s sickening crimes are a stain on the police and he should never have been allowed to remain as an officer for so long,” Braverman said....
...And then there is the looming presence of William Shakespeare....
...At this year’s Royal Ascot, towering above the constantly moving architectural millinery, one of the most visually dramatic fixed points was a giant bronze ram’s head opposite the Garrick Club pavilion....
...The early 19th century was an exhilarating time for theatregoers; the celebrated actor-manager David Garrick had died in 1779, but other great thespian names skirt the narrative: the Macreadys and siblings...
...In Georgian London, there can hardly have been more opposite visual sensibilities than neoclassical idealist John Soane, architect of the Bank of England, and grassroots chronicler of the dissolute city William...
...Every character in William Hogarth’s “The Four Times of Day” (1736) is recognisable in today’s London: rich or poor, thrusting or defeated, sexy or sad, we sympathise, agonise, wonder about them all....
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...Another post, on the Ribbonfarm blog, predicts the replacement of the conformist, corporate drones critiqued by William Whyte in his 1956 book The Organization Man by “Blockchain Man” (or presumably woman...
...He called his London crowd “the blackstocking fraternity” — it included Dr Johnson, David Garrick, Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith....
Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespearean revival shows a sprinkling of ideas for individual moments, but no sign of a spark in overall concept or execution
...Awaking from nightmares of his murdered opponents, the king starts up in terror before the Battle of Bosworth in William Hogarth’s poised, serpentine “David Garrick as Richard III”....
...This is both the birthplace of the blues — Robert Johnson reputedly sold his soul to the devil on the edge of town — and where Tennessee Williams spent his formative years....
...Shakespeare, wrote Garrick in his ode, is “the God of our idolatry”. When William Shakespeare was buried in Holy Trinity Church on April 25 1616, his name was admired but not revered....
...This was the centrepiece of Garrick’s Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769....
...“Bardolatry”, the worship of William Shakespeare, took almost 150 years to take hold. In our hyperactive times, cultural canonisation occurs more quickly....
The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company launches its year-long season in the West End
...The Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez hired and fired William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway among his literary mentors....
...January 27) is followed by Dvorak’s Othello (February 3), Sibelius’s The Tempest (February 10), Richard Strauss’s Macbeth (February 26) and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet (April 15). lpo.org.uk Red Velvet Garrick...
...The “heroic friendship” of Oxford colleagues such as Bernard Williams, who went over Berlin’s older work for republication, is of a different order....
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