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Eileen Atkins

May 2023

  • Claire-Marie Hall Zoe Roberts, David Cumming, Natasha Hodgson and Jak Malone in Operation Mincemeat.

    The week in theatre: Operation Mincemeat; 4000 Miles; The Circle – review

  • Sebastian Croft as Leo and Eileen Atkins as Vera

    4000 Miles review – Eileen Atkins and Sebastian Croft connect in tale of distant relations

October 2022

  • ‘A hallucinatory experience’ … Frances Barber with Amanda Abbington and Reece Shearsmith in The Unfriend.

    ‘I threw my arms around Beckett!’ – electrifying first nights, by Ciarán Hinds, Eileen Atkins and more

    The author of a new book about the greatest openings in theatre history asks stars of stage to recall their most thrilling first nights – and the occasional disasters that befell them

June 2022

  • OFM June-Eileen Atkins

    Lunch with...
    Eileen Atkins: ‘People told me not to go on the internet because I’m angry enough already’

    Tears at lunchtime as the actor talks about her memoir, Doc Martin and Judi Dench’s baking skills

May 2022

  • West End debut not happening. For now … Timothée Chalamet.

    Culture in peril
    Timothée Chalamet’s West End debut cancelled after two years of postponements

    The Old Vic theatre says its much-anticipated production of 4000 Miles, co-starring Eileen Atkins, will no longer go ahead

October 2021

  • Football pundit Ian Wright and author Musa Okwonga.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
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    The best original photographs from the Observer

September 2021

  • ‘I don’t feel it’s worth saying anything unless it’s the truth’: Eileen Atkins.

    Eileen Atkins: ‘There are plenty of parts if you’re willing to make yourself look lousy’

    From council estate in Tottenham to West End stage, the veteran actor and screenwriter tells her life story in a funny and honest new memoir

December 2018

  • Top 10 theatre of 2018

    Best culture 2018
    Top 10 theatre shows of 2018

    A gender-switch Company got Sondheim’s blessing, Sam Mendes probed the doomed Lehman dynasty and Austen had a sparkling rewrite. But the year belonged to Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins facing the anguish of dementia

October 2018

  • Jonathan Pryce (Andre) and Eileen Atkins (Madeleine) in The Height Of The Storm byFlorian Zeller

    The week in theatre: Twelfth Night; I’m Not Running; The Height of the Storm – review

  • Jonathan Pryce as Andre and Eileen Atkins as Madeleine

    The Height of the Storm review – Pryce and Atkins are magnetic

August 2018

  • dance-autumn-reviews-2018

    Autumn arts preview 2018
    Dazzling drama: the unmissable theatre, dance and comedy of autumn 2018

    Gender-swapped classics, Hans Christian Andersen’s closet secrets, two giants of US comedy sharing a stage, plus Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo as rulers in love

May 2018

  • Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins and Judi Dench.

    Nothing Like a Dame review – an actor’s life for the famous four

    Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith take a trip down memory lane in this enjoyable documentary

April 2018

  • Quirky individuality … from left, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins and Judi Dench in Nothing Like a Dame.

    Judi, Maggie, Joan and Eileen: all hail British theatre's great dames

  • Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins and Judi Dench.

    Nothing Like a Dame review – Judi Dench and Maggie Smith trade brutal banter

September 2017

  • Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins and Judi Dench

    Judi Dench and Maggie Smith to reflect on lives in new BBC arts output

    Two actors will spend a weekend retreat together with fellow dames Eileen Atkins and Joan Plowright for new programme

February 2017

  • Gemma Arterton, left, and Eva Green will star in the romance film Vita & Virginia.

    Gemma Arterton and Eva Green cast in Virginia Woolf lesbian romance

    Green is to play Woolf and Arterton is cast as Vita Sackville-West in Vita & Virginia, a film about the writers’ years-long relationship

September 2016

  • Amiably daft silliness … Dakota Blue Richards and Tom Palmer.

    ChickLit review – mummy-porn shenanigans fail to arouse

    This Britcom about a bunch of locals trying to save their village pub by writing a Fifty Shades of Grey-style bestseller is hammily acted and clunkily scripted

July 2016

  • An affair to remember … Virginia Woolf, left and Vita Sackville West, the English writer who was the model for Woolf’s Orlando.

    Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West romance set for big screen

    Long-gestating adaptation of stage play Vita and Virginia by Eileen Atkins will be directed by Chanya Button

April 2016

  • Writers of Influence: Shakespeare to J.K. Rowling tour<br>Undated National Portrait Gallery handout photo the Chandos' portrait of William Shakespeare, which will sit alongside pictures of Dizzee Rascal, Amy Winehouse and Sex Pistol John Lydon when it embarks on a year-long tour of England. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday February 18, 2010. The Shakespeare treasure is usually housed in the National Portrait Gallery and it has never been displayed in the UK outside London before. See PA story ARTS Shakespeare. Photo credit should read: National Portrait Gallery/PA Wire

    Science Weekly
    The Science of Shakespeare - Science Weekly podcast

    To commemorate the 400th year of Shakespeare’s death Science Weekly has found scientists from around the UK and Ireland who can reveal the science of Shakespeare. Everything from hurricanes and crowd manipulations, to ghosts and even the biology of fairies

February 2016

  • shakspeare week1 done-01

    Shakespeare solos
    Shakespeare Solos: watch the first six films

    Leading actors perform key Shakespeare speeches in a set of videos that capture the romance, tragedy, villainy and magic of his plays
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