Category: Review
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Review: A Spy Among Friends – Deadline
Damian Lewis With His Mona Lisa Smirk by Stephanie Bunbury | Deadline | October 7, 2022 Nothing has quite the same screen allure as a secret world. Espionage is so secret, by definition, that we have to take even its existence as a matter of trust; all we know about what goes on behind the…
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Review: A Spy Among Friends – The Telegraph
A Cerebral and Fiendish Remix of the Kim Philby Tale by Jasper Rees | The Telegraph | October 7, 2022 Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce are magnificent in a satisfyingly complex drama which focuses on Philby’s escape to Beirut in 1963. Nothing illustrated the length of the journey made by Kim Philby from West to…
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REVIEW: Damian Lewis Screen Star Celebrates a Mellow Musical Hinterland
Mellow Musical Hinterland by Stephen Dalton | The Times | August 5, 2022 Not many aspiring musicians get to pack a fancy London club to the rafters with hooting fans at their very first gig, but Damian Lewis did arrive at Omeara with a head start in the fame stakes. The Homeland, Billions and Wolf…
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REVIEW: Damian Lewis at Omeara
Passionate Debut by Neil McCormick | The Telegraph | August 4, 2022 “You! Are at … our … very first! Ever! Gig!” proclaimed Damian Lewis, as commandingly as if delivering Shakespeare with a few Pinteresque pauses. He played a double agent in Homeland, an insider trader in Billions and an unusually slender Henry VIII in…
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THE TIMES REVIEW: Sondheim’s ‘Old Friends’
Five Stars: A Star-Spangled, Unforgettable Tribute to Stephen Sondheim by Clive Davis | The Times | May 4, 2022 Photo: Danny Kaan Excuse me if I gush, but this was one of those nights where it was difficult to focus on highlights simply because there were so many. Cameron Mackintosh’s memorial concert for Stephen Sondheim,…
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LONDON THEATRE REVIEW: Sondheim’s ‘Old Friends’
A Tribute for the Ages by Matt Wolf | London Theatre | May 4, 2022 “He’s left us with an impossible choice.†So the impresario Cameron Mackintosh told an entirely rapt crowd near the start of Old Friends, the one-off celebration of Stephen Sondheim that took place across three unforgettable hours May 3 at the…
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GUARDIAN REVIEW: Sondheim’s ‘Old Friends’
A Glorious All-Star Memorial Service: Five Stars, Ten If Rules Allowed by Mark Lawson | The Guardian | May 4, 2022 Photo: Danny Kaan Stephen Sondheim was so vast a talent that London on Tuesday night required two theatres to remember him, after his death in November aged 91. Produced by Cameron Mackintosh and staged…