Richard Eyre

...the years people have wondered why there hadn't been a stage version. That's why. What Disney has done is hire a British director (Richard Eyre of the National Theatre in London), a famous British choreographer (Matthew Bourne), a British...

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...oligarchs plotting to overthrow the British state. Thankfully, he hasn't. He warms to his theme. "I asked [the director] Richard Eyre the other day if there were any people in today's Russian arts scene that he would like to meet, and he...

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...the likes of Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall and Juliet Stephenson. She met her husband of 25 years, actor Jon Carter, in Richard Eyre's landmark early Eighties production of Guys And Dolls at the National Theatre. In 2007, the couple,...

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...Margaret Tyzack in anything, and Peter O'Toole has a longstanding connection with the Old Vic: it was his Hamlet in the 1950s that got Richard Eyre interested in the theatre. Whoever is cast, though, will have one advantage over the young...

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...in style and spirit with others by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. The staging is without peer, credited to director Richard Eyre, co-direction and choreography by Matthew Bourne, co-choreography by Geoffrey Garratt, in collaboration...

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...George Stiles and Anthony Drewe that supplement the timeless tunes of Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman's Oscar-winning score. Richard Eyre's staging is gentler and cozier than when I first encountered this updated take on "Mary...

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...accepted each other's ideas. A first-rate creative team was assembled: Julian Fellowes ("Gosford Park") wrote the adaptation; Richard Eyre and Matthew Bourne co-directed, and Bourne, one of the theater world's most in-demand...

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...Opera, will premiere the score for his new dance piece, Shoes, at the theatre. Morris said Mamma Mia! director Phyllida Lloyd and Richard Eyre, the former artistic director of the National Theatre, are both keen to work at the Old Vic in...

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...this obsession with freedom and passions that are everything or nothing. Like me! " She "adores" the production's director Richard Eyre, too. "When the Met asked me to sing Carmen, I say to them, 'If you give me Richard, I will do it. '...

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...Samantha Jones in the hit US TV series, will star opposite former Spooks star Matthew MacFayden. Award-winning director Richard Eyre will direct the revival at London's Vaudeville Theatre from 3 March. British-born Cattrall won...

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