New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
When you grow up in an acting dynasty — particularly one without a television set — books become pretty important. And so they were for Lynn Redgrave and family. “We certainly were big readers,” she says of herself and her siblings, Vanessa and Corin...
Liberal England (Free subscription) | yesterday
A film trivia question: Who is the only Carry On regular to have been nominated for an Oscar? While you are considering that, enjoy this performance from the Seekers' farewell concert in July 1968. I remember seeing the show on television at the time. Because the Seekers were huge in those days, having two number ones in 1965. I suppose they sound pretty tame now but, especially when you consider that...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Family ties are powerful, and when the folks are as famous and as accomplished as the Redgrave clan, these bindings must be industrial strength indeed.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
This week saw the too-rapid close of the Neil Simon revival Brighton Beach Memoirs on Broadway, as well as the opening of three Off Broadway productions: The Understudy, starring Justin Kirk, Julie White, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar (at left); Idiot Savant with Willem Dafoe; and Nightingale with Lynn Redgrave. Melissa Bernardo gave a B+ to The
About Last Night (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I review two off-Broadway shows, The Understudy and Nightingale, in today's Wall Street Journal drama column. The first is great...
Critic-O-Meter (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
GRADE: B+ By Lynn Redgrave. Directed by Joseph Hardy. Manhattan Theatre Club's Center Stage I. Through June 5. The latest of Lynn Redgrave's solo shows about her illustrious family seems simultaneously the most urgent and the most thinly sourced, and the generally admiring but not ecstatic reviews tend to harp on that disconnect. Some critics are enchanted by the story she's imagined for the maternal...
Christopher Fowlers Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Sitting at my desk here I can see St Paul’s, the London Eye and the BT Tower, and two of them are about to become new venues to eat and drink. Londoners have a long tradition of building something and then throwing a dinner party inside it, up it or on it. The Victorians had [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Lynn Redgrave explores the life of her maternal grandmother through the prism of her own in her reflective new solo show.
New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
You think your grandparents were inhibited? Lynn Redgrave's were worse.
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Lynn Redgrave shakes her famous family tree again for a new solo play. Presented by Manhattan Theatre Club, "Nightingale" is a moving fantasia inspired by her maternal grandmother, Beatrice Kempson.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Legit Reviews: Lynn Redgrave holds us in the palm of her hand in this one-woman play about her family.
Vulture (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
In this week's magazine, Emily Nussbaum traces the history of the TV cougar , from Samantha Jones to Cougar Town . Tim Murphy spends 93 minutes with Lynn Redgrave . Andrew Marantz talks to the apocalypse experts Sony recruited to help sell 2012 . Justin Davidson tells us how New York is sneaking great new buildings into tiny, unexpected places . David Edelstein reviews Precious . Logan Hill interviews...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Facing cancer and the death of her niece, the actress explores love and loss in her one-woman show.
Gossip Central (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The Year of Magical Thinking, a one-woman play based on Joan Didion's 2005 memoir of the same name, was a hit on Broadway in 2007, directed by David Hare. On Monday, the play was reprised for a farewell performance by...
The Business Journal of Milwaukee (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Academy Award-nominated actress Lynn Redgrave has agreed to return to Ten Chimneys in 2010 to serve as an instructor to the nation's top regional theater actors.
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