Despite the job hunting going like wading through ever in thickness increasing mud, I had a week of wows. I witnessed beautiful things that really made me stop and say “Wow”.
Dan and Hugh

A Steady Rain with Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman

The first WOW was Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman, Thursday a week ago exactly. [...]

A Steady Rain, Broadway, New York

Now this was bound to be a magical evening and it was. I am not sure if it was the fantastic well acted and intense play that this is, or if it was the two leads auctioning off their shirts at the end of the show. Tough choice!
It was a [...]

Bill, Bill and Priscill

First an update from the moving front:
I had planned to meet quite a lot of people tonight who wanted to have a look at the two rooms available in my current flat, but I fear that the planned tube strike from 7pm tonight might mess things up a bit. Just when I [...]

Graham Norton in La Cage aux Folles

I wouldn’t have picked it myself, as I thought it would just be another silly musical. But I went along with a friend and yes it was a musical but it was far from silly. La Cage Aux Folles (which first was a play then a film, then a [...]

New Boy
The story is a bit wobbly here and there but what great performances of especially Nicholas Hoult (from About a Boy with Hugh Grant/Skins) and Gregg Lowe. It’s refreshing to see great young actors like these, the future of British stage and theatre is looking good.
The play is both funny and [...]

Confessions of a shopaholic wasn’t the best rom-com ever (it’s Sex in the City meet Devil wears Prada), but I laughed quite a lot at Isla Fisher. She has great comic talent, and she is worth watching the film for. She and Hugh Dancy.

I saw A View from the Bridge last week, and wow, Ken [...]

(Re)Writing

BBC Writersroom

I did attend the open BBC Writersroom event. And realised that it is very intimidating to see the competition. Loads and loads of people where there, all writers, all wanting to make it. Not good for self confidence.
I had to leave a bit earlier, so I don’t know what I missed at the end [...]

New York sky line taken from JFK airport

(Amazing view from the waiting area on the airport, it’s far away but the Empire State Building is so much higher than the rest)
Honestly what can you write after a post like the last one.
It’s far from as interesting, but this is the best I could come up [...]

Chubby Checker Hot Chocolate in New York

Four things that are better in London than in New York:

The queue culture. There is no queue culture in NY and I so miss it when I am there, I love the built-in politeness of the British people.
The language. I am a sucker for the UK English language [...]

I saw My Zinc Bed on BBC2. It was originally a play by David Hare, who now adapted it for television.
The problem with theatre plays being adapted for telly is that there is so much talk in them. My Zinc Bed was no exception. And despite an interesting cast (Paddy Considine, Jonathan Pryce and Uma [...]

Wrong Day Wrong Time

I just took this picture, on my way back to the office after lunch in a posh burger bar on Portobello Road. It struck me how appropriate it was. This is the tape you get taped on your garbage if you happen to put it out on the street on the [...]

LOVE – the musical

I can’t remember how I stumbled upon this, but I blindly bought a ticket on the title and poster alone. No regrets about that I can say.
Yesterday I saw Love – the Musical. And how refreshing to watch actors that are passed 60 and I think, without insulting any of them, some [...]

God of Carnage

Oh this was good, so good …

Kevin Spacey – Jeff Goldblum – Speed the Plow

Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum both star in this 90 minutes-performance-without-a-break (toilet before you go in) American play called Speed the Plow.
When I sat down in the Old Vic and the curtain opened and Kevin Spacey stepped into the light I thought:
“Wow, you lucky bastard. Here you [...]

Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum

Kevin (Lost in) Spacey. Oh and Jeff Goldblum (who has pretty lanky legs)
I hope your day is full of love, actually and free of commercial Bullshit.

TKTS New York and the man I really want to see
TKTS New York and the man I really want to see (no I didn’t manipulate this picture)
I really was planning on living low budget the next couple of weeks. To save up for a holiday maybe but how can I resist the tempation of watching [...]

Tube dogs

Those two did accompany me this morning on my travel on the Hammersmith & City Line. Trust me they look more dangerous than they were, they were quite cute, and a bit bored and not too happy to be on the train. And they have this intensely sad look on their face. They are [...]

New York is familiair but different. I know London well now, walking around in a big city is fine, but I can feel that I am more alert walking around in New York. And New York is different. It’s good, it keeps my eyes open, it makes me more aware and it makes me want [...]

Charles Dance in Shadowlands

I have 7 plays lined up the coming months, but I doubt any of them will come even close to Shadowlands, which I saw yesterday.
Shadowlands tells the story of C.S. Lewis (writer of Narnia), a confirmed bachelor into his fifties, until he meets Joy, a witty, intelligent American woman who has been [...]

Unrequited Love

We have received 10 responses from 50+ aged actors with gray hair who can raise and eyebrow “Roger Moore” style, and who want to be in our short film. Don’t you just love a job description like that.
We will see some of them to check that we can work with them and will then [...]