Thanks to all those who wrote in with the bit of bad news about the LOTR musical and an injury to one of its performers. The BBC’s article about it can be found right here. We wish the cast member a speedy recovery and the show all the best.
Category: Old Main News
The Royal Shakespeare Company productions of King Lear and The Seagull — both starring Ian McKellen and directed by Trevor Nunn — will arrive at the West End’s New London Theatre Nov. 12. News of the transfer comes just before the delayed press performance of McKellen’s Lear, which will be shown to the critics as a matinee, followed by an evening performance of The Seagull, in which McKellen plays Sorin. The Shakespeare and Chekhov plays will run in repertory at Stratford-upon-Avon’s Courtyard Theatre until June 23. The RSC made the decision to postpone the original April 3 press night of King Lear after Frances Barber, who plays Goneril, sustained a knee injury in a bicycle accident. [More]
Vanessa “Saffron” Price, Online Community Representative for The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, writes: Middle-earth is a busy place for an adventurer! Take a look at this overview about the many leisure activities available to the battle-weary fighter. [More]
Harry Potter’s moon-faced mug is plastered all over the front doors of the Borders bookstore in Altamonte Springs. A life-sized rendering of the star Quidditch Seeker stands just inside the store entrance, and the sales staff wears lanyards bearing more signs of Harry’s seventh coming. Area booksellers can be forgiven for baiting their hooks as the July 21 release of the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling’s series approaches. But in the meantime, a much older — and some say wiser — wizard has risen from a grave deep beyond Middle-earth. This one has slashed through the Hogwarts hoopla and claimed lordship of the best-seller ring, provoking glee among legions of his mostly older, Hobbit-formed fans. [More]
Take an early look on our ‘DVD Tuesday’ feature…every Monday! Sadly there are very few winners to choose from this week. However some of the goodies include; ‘Heavy Petting: Special Edition’ & ‘Katherine Hepburn Collection’. There are really no big releases of note this week, save perhaps ‘Hannibal Rising: Unrated’. The HD DVD crowd get a few good titles this week with ‘Dragonheart’, ‘Frighteners’ & ‘Lost in Translation’ all coming out tomorrow. The Blu ray gurus get ‘Curse of the Golden Flower’ & ‘Weeds Season 1’. Check out the whole list here! [More]
