Actors and Actresses
British Actors You Should Know: Benedict Cumberbatch
At this point, what *can't* Benedict Cumberbatch do?
Actors and Actresses
British Actors You Should Know: Ian McKellen
If you don’t know Sir Ian McKellen, hang your head and turn in your Anglophile card. McKellen is as synonymous with British stage and screen as fish and chips are with its cuisine. He has led numerous stage productions and has been a leading man on television since playing
Actors and Actresses
In Memoriam: Maggie Smith
On September 27, 2024, Dame Maggie Smith’s two sons shared the news that their mother had passed away at the age of 89. “She passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning, Friday 27th September. An intensely private person, she was with friends and family at the end,” her
William Shakespeare
Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio
William Shakespeare died at 52 in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 1616 and was buried two days later. His career spanned merely 28 years (give or take), and of his writings, 19 plays had been published in various states of completion during his life. Considering that today, he is credited
British Movies
British Movies: 'The Lost King' Is a Heartwarming Piece of Plantagenet Propaganda
Everyone knows the story of King Richard III. Or, at least, they think they do. Thanks to William Shakespeare and his dark history play about the doomed monarch, everyone remembers Richard as a monster, a villain with a deformed body to match his dark heart. A usurper who murdered his
AMC/AMC+
Richard III Archeological Drama 'The Lost King' Coming to AMC+ & Acorn TV
England's King Richard III is a monarch who is generally remembered as a monster, in no small part because of William Shakespeare's famous depiction of the villainous king with a twisted back and a dark heart. Whether or not that presentation bears any real resemblance to
Exclusive
Robert O’Hara on 'Great Performances' 'Richard III' & Shakespeare Meeting Us Where We Are
Great Performances celebrates 50 years on PBS in 2023, and as part of the anthology series' 50th anniversary, it's leading off with another anniversary special -- Shakespeare in the Park's Richard III. The Joseph Papp-conceived free-for-all production celebrated 60 years since opening its
PBS
Everything British Streaming on PBS Passport in May 2023
May has arrived, and with it, a major announcement. The Walter's Choice deluge of the last six months is finally ending. The massive wave of titles coming every Thursday since the end of November was part of PBS Passport catching up to its Masterpiece Channel cousin over on
Theater
6 Shakespeare Films To Stream When You've Finished 'The Tragedy of Macbeth'
For those with Apple TV+, it will be time to meet The Tragedy of Macbeth again, though in streaming, not thunder, lightning, or rain. But this new adaptation of one of William Shakespeare's most well-known tragedies is just another reminder that 400 years on, the Bard is