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Year long run of Kenneth Branagh work to end on 12 November

The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company has staged seven plays at the Garrick over the past eleven months featuring a total of 64 actors wearing some 286 costumes and 36 wigs. Eighteen cast members made their West End debuts in the acclaimed productions, playing opposite actors such as Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Zoë Wanamaker, Lily James, […]

REVIEW: THE ENTERTAINER (Garrick Theatre) ★★★

My, how time flies. The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company’s 13 month long ‘Plays at the Garrick’ season is drawing to a close and most would agree it’s been an artistic and critical success. There have been few wobbles along the way — a stylized but not totally captivating Romeo and Juliet for example. In the […]

Check out these images of THE ENTERTAINER at the Garrick Theatre

Last night, Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company’s production of The Entertainer opened at the Garrick Theatre. Rob Ashford directs Kenneth Branagh as Archie Rice alongside Phil Dunster as Graham, Gawn Grainger as Billy Rice, Jonah Hauer-King as Frank Rice, Crispin Letts as Brother Bill, Sophie McShera as Jean Rice and Greta Scacchi as Phoebe Rice. Further casting […]

John Hurt to star opposite Kenneth Branagh in The Entertainer

Further casting has been announced for The Entertainer, the final production in the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company’s Plays at the Garrick season. John Hurt will return to the London stage for the first time in a decade as legendary patriarch Billy Rice opposite Kenneth Branagh, who as previously announced, will play the unforgettable Archie Rice […]