RSC News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... have already had a seat named after them include David Suchet, John Thaw, Ian Richardson and Dame Peggy Ashcroft, so there’s plenty of opportunity for people to name a seat after a favourite actor.The transformation of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre is due for completion at the end of 2010 at a cost of £112.8 million. There is still £10 million left to raise and there are a number...
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Outside Number 10 Downing Street for Save London's Theatre Campaigne in February 1973. L to R - Edward Woodward , Dame Peggy Ashcroft , Michael Booth, Julia Foster, Derek Nimo, Sheila Hancock, Hugh Manning and Andre Morell
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
UK Feature Film Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Charles Bennett, Ian Hay, John Buchan Cinematographer: Bernard Knowles Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie Funny, thrilling, and sexy, Hitchcock’s prototypical wrong-man thriller - in which a Canadian, living and working in London, is wrongly implicated in the murder...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... Rylands allows the play to fulfil itself naturally, and the growth before our eyes (helped by Miss Peggy Ashcroft's Ophelia and an unsurpassably lifelike Polonius by Mr. Miles Malleson) is absorbing. But for all that, is this the production of our hopes? Somehow not. It lacks the lightning flash; it is the truth of "Hamlet" but not the tempest or the terror. For some stretches,...
