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Jodie Comer, Paul Mescal Take Acting Gold at Olivier Awards

Screen stars Paul Mescal and Jodie Comer scored prizes at London’s Olivier Awards on Sunday for their first-ever West End stage roles, while a stage adaptation of Japanese animated classic “My Neighbor Totoro” won six trophies. Irish actor Mescal – an Academy Award acting nominee this year for “Aftersun” –…

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester: 'It’s about the lies we tell ourselves and the pain we endure'

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Manchester Evening News

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof review – Succession-style scheming in the deep south

Modern-day version casts Tennessee Williams’s steamy melodrama in a new light, with a focus on the corruptibility of wealth

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Secrets, lies and Manchester's 'spaceship': Cat On A Hot Tin Roof's Patrick Robinson

Former Casualty and Strictly star Patrick Robinson talks dysfunctional families, diversity and long-running dramas with the M.E.N's Dianne Bourne

Manchester Evening News

Streetcar director Rebecca Frecknall: ‘I thought Paul Mescal was too young for Stanley but Brando was only 27’

Since her breakthrough show in 2018, Frecknall has gone from being virtually unknown to one of theatre’s most in-demand directors

Evening Standard

Patsy Ferran on pairing up with Paul Mescal in Streetcar: ‘The nerves just skyrocketed’

The actor had just a week to rehearse for A Streetcar Named Desire. Fortunately, her turn as tragic belle Blanche DuBois has audiences enchanted

The Guardian - UK

Down to the Crossroads: A Northerner explores the birthplace of the blues

Jerry Holt gazed at the old cotton gin at historic Dockery Farms with a bit of wonder. The massive red, rusty Murray 90 machine looked hauntingly familiar. Suddenly, memories came flooding back on this sun-dappled afternoon along the Mississippi Blues Trail.

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A Streetcar Named Desire with Paul Mescal transfers to West End

Critically acclaimed and now boasting an Oscar nominee, the Almeida’s Tennessee Williams production will move to the Phoenix theatre this spring

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: Oscar or not, Paul Mescal makes screen acting look natural again

Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve been missing until you experience it again. I felt that way watching Paul Mescal’s performance in “Aftersun,” the stunning debut film by writer-director Charlotte Wells.

Los Angeles Times

The week in theatre: A Streetcar Named Desire; Watch on the Rhine

Rebecca Frecknall’s headlong take on Tennessee Williams captivates. And Lillian Hellman’s 1941 call to arms resonates anew

The Guardian - UK

A Streetcar Named Desire: Paul Mescal’s cruel Stanley leaves Normal People’s gold chain in tatters

The ‘Aftersun’ actor gives an entrancing performance in Rebecca Frecknall’s intense Tennessee Williams revival at the Almeida

The Independent UK

A Streetcar Named Desire at the Almeida review: Paul Mescal is horribly good and Patsy Ferran is astonishing

With this revival Frecknall proves herself again to be a director of great vision and invention

Evening Standard

RGV Punk Rocker Makes It Big on the Silver Screen

After growing up near the border in McAllen, Raul Castillo developed a lifelong love of acting and writing plays.

Texas Observer

A Streetcar Named Desire at 75: Blanche, Stanley, and the Tennessee Williams play that still haunts us

As Paul Mescal takes on the role first made famous by Marlon Brando, Holly Williams looks at the star-studded history of ‘Streetcar’, a play full of parts coveted by big name actors

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Evening Standard

Satires like White Lotus backfire: They make us want to be rich too

In two short, fabulous seasons, The White Lotus has become the first legitimate cult classic TV franchise of the 2020s. The HBO show sets a new high bar for noir comedy by playing a clever sleight of hand. Set amidst ludicrously luxurious holiday resorts – first in Hawaii, now Sicily…

The Guardian - UK

Almeida theatre cancels performances of A Streetcar Named Desire as actor withdraws

Patsy Ferran will take over from Lydia Wilson when the London production opens a week late, alongside co-stars Paul Mescal and Anjana Vasan

The National (Scotland)

Classic play examines desperation experienced by young adults navigating world

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

The Guardian - UK

The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore review – a sour night

Tennessee Williams’ script about a dying widow dictating her memoirs is dragged into the modern day as characters fidget with their phones on a sparse set

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Manchester Evening News

Powerful performances and captivating acting: The Glass Menagerie review

Tennessee Williams’ semi-autobiographical memory play pulls apart the complex dynamics of an oppressive family life

The Guardian - UK

Elvis Presley as Willy Wonka? The films the King of Rock’n’Roll almost made

West Side Story, Midnight Cowboy and The Godfather would all have been very different if Elvis had got his way – or if his manager Col Tom Parker hadn’t turned down so many roles on his behalf

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Glass Menagerie; Girl on an Altar; We Started to Sing

Amy Adams’s star power fails to illuminate underpowered Tennessee Williams; Eileen Walsh burns bright as Clytemnestra; and Barbara Flynn and Robin Soans elevate a family nostalgia fest

The Independent UK

The Glass Menagerie review: Amy Adams makes a likeable but underpowered West End debut

The Oscar nominee lacks flamboyant charisma in a Tennessee Williams revival that’s frustratingly light on laughter

The Guardian - UK

The Glass Menagerie review – Amy Adams’s West End debut fails to find its heart

Tennessee Williams’s story of yearning, passion and despair never puts us under its spell in Jeremy Herrin’s production

Evening Standard

The Glass Menagerie at Duke of York’s Theatre review: Amy Adams’ West End debut is muted and unconvincing

As a West End star vehicle for the celebrated actress, The Glass Menagerie barely passes its MOT

The Conversation

From the Moscow stage to Monroe and De Niro: how the Method defined 20th-century acting

When an actor is criticised for peculiarly excessive preparation for a role, or an inability to break character off-camera, an ill-defined notion of “Method” acting (note the capital “M”) is rarely far away.

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