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London has a lot of theatres. Generally, that's where you go to see plays. Sometimes though, a production runs away from the theatre, gets lost, and ends up somewhere a little different.

Jude Law would seem the ideal choice to play Hamlet. It is, after all, a revenge play with all the trappings of a B movie.

London, Twelfth Night is light on laughs More reviews by Henry Hitchings A whiff of Victor Meldrew's hauteur: Richard Wilson as Malvolio.

Richard Wilson is the latest star to don Malvolio's yellow stockings for the RSC - what is it about the great grump that attracts actors? Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear a ' and Malvolio? Few audiences would rank Twelfth Night's misanthrope, tricked into capering about in a pair of yellow stockings, as one of Shakespeare's major roles.

WHERE else would you watch in the space of four days films from around the globe with subjects including a foot fetish murderer, freedom fighters in El Salvador and a funeral-crashing confidence trickster played by Sir Derek Jacobi? Yes, the Iris Prize Festival shimmied into town for its third outing and brought another hugely diverse selection of ...

A chance encounter in Kent inspired a film producer to create a documentary about the life and works of Charles Dickens.

A THEATRICAL society is hunting for ten talented theatregoers to join the judging panel for the 2011 Laurence Olivier Awards.

Sting wants to popularise opera among his fans and hopes to attract more admires with his latest release, Twin Spirits, where he and wife Trudie Styler narrate the story of composer Robert Schumann.

The nearly legendary story of Robert and Clara Schumann was staged and filmed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2007.

The British director Roland Joff has been accused of making an 18m propaganda film funded by members of Opus Dei, the secretive Roman Catholic organisation, to counter its portrayal as a cabal of self-flagellating conspirators in The Da Vinci Code.

A COMEDY film about morris dancing has secured a national release thanks to the efforts of an Oxfordshire woman with a passion for the tradition.

A COMEDY film about morris dancing has secured a national release thanks to the efforts of an Oxfordshire woman with a passion for the tradition.

A COMEDY film about morris dancing has secured a national release thanks to the efforts of an Oxfordshire woman with a passion for the tradition.

The attractive aspect of this flat-footed documentary resides in seeing numerous places where the peripatetic novelist lived as a deprived young man, owned as a successful author and incorporated into his work.

In "Sidney Turtlebaum," the title character has a habit of stealing small objects of value from the homes of mourners, but Derek Jacobi, the actor who portrays Sidney, steals the scenes.

Judging by the storytelling brilliance assembled here -- including ''Angels in America,'' ''Lonesome Dove,'' and ''Battlestar Galactica'' -- NBC's new sci-fi event ''Meteor'' has a lot to live up to 20 Classic TV Miniseries I, CLAUDIUS This BBC adaptation of Robert Graves' historical novels - which follows the stammering, limping Claudius as he ...

Larry Conroy On Cameraand Off and private coaching, New York; www.larryconroy.com Action, intention, objective - in the English language, three words that have several interpretations.

You can bring another Best Picture winner home in a new Blu-ray series this September.

EMMA Thompson has a 'couldn't care less' attitude that makes her irresistible - and her next move will see her bowing out of the limelight for a year.

EMMA Thompson has a 'couldn't care less' attitude that makes her irresistible - and her next move will see her bowing out of the limelight for a year.