Search Results for: Derek Jacobi
Theater-related “New Arrivals” on Netflix
Airplane: “What’s his problem?” “That’s Lieutenant Hurwitz. Severe shellshock. Thinks he’s Ethel Merman.” (The misspelling of Merman’s surname in the YouTube clip above is not my fault.) Some Like It Hot: Features an actual vaudevillean, Joe E. Brown. Plus Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in drag. Plus Marilyn Monroe playing a ukulele. Of course … Continue reading
The Acorn Doesn’t Fall Far from the TV
Acorn Media has started its own sort of selective Netflix, a Britflix if you will. It’s actually called AcornTV. Acorn is well known to theater geeks as the distributor of such stage-centric DVDs as Discovering Hamlet (reviewed here), the three-DVD television rendition of Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests (which I’ve been meaning to review here … Continue reading
Theater DVD of the Week
Discovering Hamlet: Two of Britain’s Greatest Actors Stage Shakespeare’s Greatest Tragedy. 1990 PBS documentary by Mark Olshaker and Larry Klein, reissued 2011 on DVD by Athena (athenalearning.com) with bonus interviews and cast biographies. $39.99. Derek Jacobi is King Lear April 28 through June 5 at BAM (http://www.bam.org), in a Michael Grandage production imported from London’s … Continue reading