When the actors in the Upstart Crow’s current production of “The Seagull” tap into the big emotions, the show works: It’s there in Marc Borai’s broad, inappropriate laugh, as Ilya ...

That’s what they want,” declares Thomas Henslowe, the debt-ridden theatre manager in Shakespeare ... Shakespearean scaffolding up pops The Upstart Crow. Ben Elton’s critically acclaimed ...

This endearing stage reprise of the Ben Elton-penned David Mitchell sitcom returns after being cut short by the pandemic This review ... theatre with it for two-and-a-half hours, ‘The Upstart ...

Born out of the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 2016, Ben Elton's sitcom The Upstart Crow went on to ... so long for it to become a theatre show.

Ben Elton has fashioned an original story that picks up in 1605, a decade after where the third series left off (with the death of William Shakespeare's son, Hamnet), and two years into the reign of ...

I am also seeing Taming Of The Shrew at the Globe Theatre tomorrow. Which will be quite a confluence. Upstart Crow may not give you the deep-seated rocking to the core that a good Shakespeare ...

The crux of the evening is spent with The Upstart Crow. The play begins sometime after Shakespeare’s death when his daughter, Susannah, wanders into the Globe Theatre. On a desperate quest to ...

Bar a couple of lines about levelling up, the show is the same mix of clever and oafish, worshipful and mocking – a vehicle for panto acting and a machine-gun barrage of gags. Some of the humour ...

All's well that ends well Shakespeare just can’t escape the plague. The David Mitchell-led BBC sitcom Upstart Crow made a triumphant transfer to the stage in February 2020, only to see the ...

Workshopped in 2019 at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company ... the well-established Marlowe ("Tamburlaine") and the "Upstart Crow" Shakespeare--are meeting for the first time to collaborate on ...

David Mitchell and Gemma Whelan in Upstart Crow at Gielgud Theatre. Photo: Johan Persson Most of the original TV show cast is here on stage, which is a relief since they comprise some of the best ...

More than two years on and Upstart Crow is back, though this time in a different playhouse ... Not via another plague, though. Apollo Theatre, to Dec 3; upstartcrowthecomedy.com ...