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...The next generation of cast-iron cookware Inspired by the vintage ’30s cast-iron pans inherited from their grandmother, and mystified by the fact that modern cookware didn’t measure up, brothers Stephen...
...“There have been other moments in history when the opening night has been the closing night,” observed the NT’s director Rufus Norris, wryly, as he stepped on to the stage to welcome the audience....
...Rufus Norris’s revival hits almost exactly the right note in this regard....
...For Rufus Norris, artistic director of the National Theatre, her debut there is “long overdue”. “Her work challenged a lot of what I thought theatre was about,” he says....
...nationaltheatre.org.uk, 020 7452 3000, runs to September 30 The Motherf**ker, with the Hat, National Theatre, London British premiere for Stephen Adly Guirgis’s poetic, profane play about love, addiction...
...tricycle.co.uk, 020 7328 1000, now previewing, runs to June 13 The Funfair, Home, Manchester This major brand-new venue is launched with a new version by Simon Stephens of a 20th-century classic by Ödön...
...Nancy Carroll, Oliver Chris, Rufus Sewell and Rachel Redford compose a cast to give your eye-teeth for, and all four take David Leveaux’s direction with skill and commitment....
...IS thenethertheplay.co.uk, 020 7565 5000, to April 25 … Assassins, Menier Chocolate Factory, London Final week for Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece about presidential murderers...
...The film, directed by incoming National Theatre artistic director Rufus Norris, is due for release next year. NT Live is also the film’s UK distributor....
...Nor could I in director Stephen Frears’s earlier The Grifters, but that didn’t matter. You liked the people and the plot....
...See also: Lady Gaga takes tea with Mr Fry Audio: the full Stephen Fry and Lady Gaga interview In pictures: Stephen Fry meets Lady Gaga...
...And partay we did, with Mad Men star Jon Hamm, Benicio Del Toro, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, Bret Easton Ellis, Green Day, Sharon Osbourne, Rufus Wainwright, Robert De Niro’s daughter Drena, Matt Goss of...
...Stephen Kechulius savoured baritonal fervour as Xerxes while James Maddalena sustained sympathy as Mordecai. Beth Clayton summoned pretty pathos as Vashti....
...Tenor Stephen Costello is Greenhorn, and young baritone Morgan Smith is Starbuck....
...McBurney’s foray into opera is part of a push to bring new directors to “rejuvenate” the form – Rufus Norris, Mike Figgis and Terry Gilliam are all appearing at ENO this season....
...Manhattan-based Stephen Petronio and his eponymous company offered a trio of his recent works for London’s Dance Umbrella but raised more questions than they answered....
...The Istanbul Jazz Festival embraces roots, rock and Latin along with the jazz hardcore, and this year – the 15th – the dozen headlining acts have a strong vocal showing: Al Jarreau, Rufus Wainwright and...
...Last year’s Bud Suite , to music by Rufus Wainwright, has the beat of Ravel’s Bolero surfacing through the vocals....
...Rufus Wainwright confides after the first number....
...David Greig’s adaptation fleshes out Hergé’s two-dimensional characters, while keeping their spirit intact, and Rufus Norris’s gorgeous staging whisks us to the Himalayas, where Tintin feels compelled to...
...Indeed, Stephen Taylor, chief financial officer, told Mudlark he visited the US only three weeks ago. Elsewhere, Taylor said, “the [legal] situation is fluid....
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