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FT Magazine
John Banville on his turn to crime writing
...As did Prospero, I have drowned my book. John Banville is an Irish novelist, the author of the Booker Prize-winner “The Sea”....
September 2, 2023
ObituaryTheatre
Ground-breaking theatre director Peter Brook dies at 97
...From 1947 he spent three years as director of productions at the Royal Opera House, where he caused uproar by staging Richard Strauss’s Salome with sets by Salvador Dalí....
July 4, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ObituaryAntony Sher
Antony Sher, actor and writer, 1949-2021
...He went on to play many of the Bard’s greatest characters, often for the RSC: Macbeth, Prospero, Lear, Shylock, Iago and, in 2014, Falstaff in Henry IV....
December 3, 2021
Theatre
Online theatre — the joys of being alone together
...On Wednesday night, the company premiered, online, Richard Nelson’s What Do We Need to Talk About?...
May 1, 2020
Life & Arts
London private art collection that traces a 35-year love story
...Provocation is not an aesthetic interior designers tend to offer, but Guy Burch and Richard Ayre have ordered their bedroom around it....
November 18, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Shakespeare gala concert, Royal Festival Hall, London — ‘Coherent and swiftly paced’
...An extract from Thomas Adès’s The Tempest included an unrewarding scene for Prospero and Caliban, but also Ariel’s otherworldly “Full fathom five”....
April 25, 2016
FT Live
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
OpeningsJan Dalley
Openings: Steeped in Shakespeare
...He was the man for whom some of the greatest dramatic parts in the English language were probably written — he was the first Hamlet, the first Lear, and more — and when, as Prospero in The Tempest, he declared...
April 22, 2016
Sarah Hemming
Shakespeare’s Globe director opens the doors to gender parity
...But the real Everest parts, those that encompass the greatest psychological and philosophical depth and test actors to their utmost, are men: Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, Prospero, Richard II, Richard III and...
January 7, 2016
Life & Arts
Shakespeare in art
...James de Loutherbourg’s frenzied depiction of Ferdinand battling the waves in The Tempest, and fragments and engravings of George Romney’s attempt at a five-metre panorama of the roaring seas conjured by Prospero...
March 24, 2016
Life & Arts
Plays and events in 2016 to mark 400 years since Shakespeare’s death
...Michael Longhurst directs The Winter’s Tale; outgoing artistic director Dominic Dromgoole stages The Tempest, with Tim McMullan as Prospero. shakespearesglobe.com , ‘The Winter’s Tale’ from January 28,...
December 30, 2015
Life & Arts
The cross-gender casting of great Shakespearean characters
...But the biggest roles – Hamlet, Lear, Prospero, Macbeth, Richard III – are all male....
September 5, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
David Byrne & St Vincent, Roundhouse, London – review
...had sung the line “My tricks are useless here”, on the parting Broadway confessional “Outside of Space and Time” and Clark had hailed him as “the archangel of absurdity”, the idea of them as an art-rock Prospero...
August 28, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
...He has worked his way up to playing a range of main parts, from Richards II and III to Prospero and Malvolio, and now he quite deservedly gets a shot at the biggest of them all....
March 29, 2013
InterviewFT Magazine
Michael Clark: ‘Extreme is good for me’
...In 1991, he took the role of Caliban in Peter Greenaway’s film Prospero’s Books. In 1994, he pulled out of a project for the Royal Ballet and then he disappeared....
November 15, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
The Tempest, Metropolitan Opera, New York
...Too bad Richard Wagner could not have wielded the baton when Lepage reduced the Ring to a silly saga about movable planks....
October 24, 2012
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewLife & Arts
The School for Scandal, Theatre Royal, Bath
...Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s genius in this 1777 comedy is in knowing just when to suspend the polished periodicity of his characters’ more accustomed speech and insert an oon or two; just when to balance...
July 12, 2012
Life & Arts
Ancient Greek coins fetch record $25m
...However, the collection is believed to have been started by Colonel Richard Seifert, the late architect of London’s Centre Point skyscraper and Tower 42....
January 6, 2012
Life & Arts
Greek coin lot set to fetch millions
...While Baldwin’s declined to reveal the identity of the Prospero Collection’s owner, it is known in numismatic circles to have been begun by Colonel Richard Seifert, the late architect of London’s controversial...
December 27, 2011
Life & Arts
Old songs, new story
...Sams has had to find music for coloratura soprano Danielle de Niese as Ariel, counter-tenor David Daniels, who will be the shamanic Prospero, dazzling mezzo Joyce DiDonato, who plays Sycorax (Caliban’s mother...
December 2, 2011
ReviewLife & Arts
Film releases: July 22
...He is playing Richard III on stage right now in London, I am told. Hold my hat, I’m off. In the silly season the first casualties are film critics. They lose their hold on reality....
July 21, 2011
Arts
The Tempest, Greenwich Royal Park
...Prospero is played by Michael Hadley with a quiet gravitas....
June 22, 2010
Life & Arts
Coffee with Orson Welles
...I wanted to play Richard Burton.”...
December 23, 2009
Life & Arts
Thomas Adès, Barbican Hall, London
...The characters who arrive on Prospero’s island are here deftly sketched in six short movements. Each is a brilliant little study that makes much of little....
April 18, 2007
Life & Arts
Theatre in London in 2007
...And, since I’m no great admirer of Peter Shaffer’s serious plays, let’s pass over Daniel Radcliffe’s West End stage debut in “Equus” opposite Richard Griffiths (Gielgud Theatre, February)....
December 28, 2006
Life & Arts
Planet of the drapes
...Richard Todd is killed by a curtain in Stage Fright - a “safety curtain”. (Hitchcock always knew a good joke.)...
February 23, 2007

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