30 h. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry at Minerva Theatre, Chichester: A tearjerking musical trek...go armed with Kleenex

Rachel Joyce's highly emotional 2012 best-seller which has now become a musical about Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage to make up with an old friend dying in a hospice 500 miles away.

Events

51 h. ago Manchester United's £62m transfer makes perfect sense after Europa League final failure

Man Utd will miss out on Champions League football next season after a turgid display in Bilbao saw them lose 1-0 to Tottenham in the Europa League final.

Sport

3 d. ago Hollyoaks legend sparks exit fears as fans say 'it makes perfect sense'

Hollyoaks spoilers have revealed that five characters will be left in danger next week as the Channel 4 soap's exploitation storyline comes to a dramatic conclusion

Politics

7 d. ago Jeremy Irons is perfectly cast as the sea – but who should play the clouds?

The raging beauty of the ocean has clearly found its perfect embodiment. Now we need to decide who will play the other elemental forcesSome actors are lucky and manage to immediately luck into a perfect role. Others have to struggle for years, sometimes even decades, before eventually finding a part that completely encapsulates their personality. Jeremy Irons is one of them. But the good news is that his number has just come up, because Jeremy Irons has just been cast as the sea.According to Variety, Water People: The Story of Us, the first documentary feature by acclaimed artist Maya de Almeida Araujo has just cast Irons as the voice of the ocean. Which just makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? Continue reading...

Politics

8 d. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews The Deep Blue Sea at the Theatre Royal: Tale of romantic regret hidden by veil of primness

Was there ever a play that craved intimacy like Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea?

Politics

1 week ago PATRICK MARMION reviews The Comedy About Spies at the Noel Coward Theatre: A head

A Sixties spy spoof that is like Johnny English meets Basil Fawlty in a Piccadilly hotel. It's bigger, better and more brilliantly bungling than ever.

Events

2 w. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews Here We Are at the National Theatre: Top

The National Theatre has really pushed the boat out for the last show by the late god of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim, but not even they can make this mongrel sing.

Politics

2 w. ago ‘An intuitive genius’: Gary Oldman steps back on to stage as a national treasure

Actor returns to York theatre where he started out 46 years ago, after cementing status as one of UK’s greatest actorsIt’s been 46 years since Gary Oldman made his professional stage debut at York’s Theatre Royal. Returning to the venue last week for Samuel Beckett’s one-man play Krapp’s Last Tape, the 67-year-old English actor is a world removed from the young upstart once advised by Rada to do something else for a living.In the intervening four decades Oldman has steadily become one of the greatest actors of his generation, whose versatility and intense performance style have earned him numerous accolades including an Oscar, three Baftas and a Golden Globe. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Debenhams' £160 'beautiful' hanging egg chair now just a tenner more than Aldi's

Aldi’s £150 hanging egg chair was a sell-out sensation this year, but this Debenhams one is a perfect alternative that only costs a tenner more.

Economics

3 w. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews Krapp's Last Tape at York's Theatre Royal: Gary Oldman's return to the stage after 37 years makes perfect sense

The Hollywood star has chosen to make his stage comeback - after 37 years - in Samuel Beckett's 50-minute monologue about a rueful old git, surveying the paltry wreckage of his life.

Politics