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Review: Solo ‘Hamlet’ at Chicago Shakes is from an Eddie Izzard unwilling to compromise
- CHICAGO — Back in 2010, Eddie Izzard sold out the United Center in Chicago. The trailblazing British comedian told me at the time of a burning need to prove comics could fill arenas. I first wrote about Izzard in a solo show called “Dressed to Kill” at the New York’s Westbeth Arts Center in the late 1990s and I’ve reviewed her, to use the recently preferred pronoun, in seven different Chicago ...
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Eddie Izzard Sets New York Stage Return With One-Person ‘Hamlet’
Eddie Izzard will play 23 characters in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet this winter in a new Off Broadway production adapted by brother Mark Izzard. The Izzards’ Hamlet will begin a six-week limited run at the Greenwich House Theater on January 25, with opening night set for February 11. Selena Cadell directs. The production reunites the Izzards …
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Eddie Izzard returns to New York for a version of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' with just one actor onstage
Eddie Izzard is returning to a New York stage this winter for an ambitious version of “Hamlet.” Izzard will play all the William Shakespeare parts in a one-person staging adapted by Izzard's brother, Mark, and directed by Selena Cadell. “It’s a great challenge but there is no point living and not going for challenges,” Izzard tells The Associated Press on the eve of the play's announcement.
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If the Remix is Eddie Izzard’s stand-up swansong, she’s ending with a noble failure
While everyone expects grizzled rock stars to belt out their greatest hits, far fewer demand that their favourite comedians revisit old material. After all, what’s a punchline without its element of surprise? But Eddie Izzard – who has spent years translating and performing routines in French, German, Arabic and other languages – rarely ducks a challenge. For this latest (and indeed, if a campaign to become the next Labour MP for Brighton Pavilion is successful, last) stand-up tour, Izzard is re
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Disney+ crime series launching this week looks like my new streaming obsession
New Disney+ show Culprits looks like my next obsession.
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Culprits: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and all about the heist series with a killer twist
Culprits on Hulu and Disney Plus which sees Gemma Arterton, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett playing criminals targeted by a killer.
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Doctor Jekyll: Eddie Izzard is wasted in this timid Hammer horror
Early films of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde made a big deal of the transformation: John Barrymore contorted his whole face and physique for the famous 1920 silent version, and the subsequent vehicles for an Oscar-winning Fredric March (1931) and Spencer Tracy (1941) used special effects revolutionary for their day.
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Eddie Izzard talks bringing the feminine to Jekyll and Hyde and moving Hammer horror into a new era
EXCLUSIVE | Director Joe Stephenson and leading lady Eddie Izzard talk Doctor Jekyll, inclusivity in horror, and the rebirth of Hammer horror
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Eddie Izzard says trans and women's rights 'shouldn't be fought against each other' (exclusive)
Trans comedian Eddie Izzard speaks to Yahoo UK about anti-trans sentiment in the public sphere and why we're at a "tipping point".
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Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett, Underbelly Boulevard: jaw-dropping cabaret from an exciting new venue
In the heart of Soho, a small venue with a storied history has reopened its doors three years after Covid shut them. The Boulevard started life in the Sixties as a sister venue to the strip club Raymond Revuebar (now the notorious Box nightclub, which has been frequented by the likes of Prince Harry and Kate Moss) amid London’s red light district on Walker’s Court. Comedy followed in the Eighties, with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders using it as their stomping ground before Eddie Izzard hosted
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Eddie Izzard says villainous transformation in Doctor Jekyll made people look at her 'strangely'
Actor Eddie Izzard and director Joe Stephenson speak to Yahoo UK about their new film Doctor Jekyll, which is bringing Hammer Horror back from the dead.
