Prick Up Your Ears

...Code," "As You Like It," "Spiderman II," "Frida," "Chocolat," "Magnolia," "Boogie Nights," "Anna Karenina," "An Echanted April", "Prick Up Your Ears" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Playbill.com's London correspondent Mark Shenton hosts.

In this article: Alfred Molina, National Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Maria Friedman, London, The Night of the Iguana, The Cherry Orchard, Tevye, and Speed the Plow

War against hypocrisy ... playwright and actor Joe Orton. Photograph: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Simon Bent's play Prick Up Your Ears is the most recent in a line of revivals and biographies that would appal Joe Orton and...

In this article: Joe Orton, Kenneth Halliwell, Literature, Loot, and What the Butler Saw

Navigation - link to other main sections from here Prick Up Your Ears to close after tickets slump on Matt Lucas withdrawal The West End show Prick Up Your Ears is to close early after ticket sales dwindled when TV comic Matt Lucas...

In this article: Matt Lucas, The Times, Suicide, Benedict Nightingale, Joe Orton, and Facebook

Lucas pulled out of the production after the death of his former partner West End play Prick Up Your Ears will close three weeks early because of poor ticket sales after Matt Lucas pulled out of his lead role. The Little Britain star...

In this article: Con O'Neill, Joe Orton, Matt Lucas, Telstar, and John Lahr

...the timid, anxious, despairing man at its core. And Kenneth Halliwell emerges far more sympathetically from his screenplay for Prick Up Your Ears than from the similarly titled West End play. He's a selfhating, woebegone figure as baffled...

In this article: Alan Bennett, Kafka's Dick, Evelyn Waugh, Joe Orton, The Wind in the Willows, Nigel Hawthorne, and Sausage

...then they want to move into the Comedy for previews that start on December 7. • Meanwhile, Con O'Neil has replaced Matt Lucas in Prick Up Your Ears, which is playing at the Comedy for a limited run. Con began rehearsals last Saturday and...

In this article: Meg Giry, Keira Knightley, London, Harry Treadaway, Cameron Mackintosh, Emily Blunt, Dominic West, and Anne-Marie Duff

...West End stage role following the death of his ex-partner, it has been announced. The comic actor temporarily left the production of Prick Up Your Ears as he grieved following the suicide of Kevin McGee last week. Producers of the show...

In this article: Matt Lucas, Suicide, West End, Joe Orton, All rights reserved, and Facebook

Navigation - link to other main sections from here Prick Up Your Ears at the Comedy, WC2 Simon Bent's drama chronicles the playwright Joe Orton's rise to fame and his increasingly splintered relationship with his lover, Kenneth...

In this article: Joe Orton, Kenneth Halliwell, Blancmange, and John Lahr

Disappointing tale of a very average Joe You'd never guess from this show that Kenneth Halliwell's problem was depression. As played by Matt Lucas, playwright Joe Orton's lover and killer swoops and shrieks and sashays about their...

In this article: Joe Orton, Kenneth Halliwell, Swoops, John Lahr, London, and Alan Bennett

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In this article: Joe Orton, Kenneth Halliwell, London, and Claustrophobia