5.8.08. Happy Birthday,
Alan!
25.7.08. Hachette Audio have released
The Last Fighting Tommy, the story of Harry Patch the only surviving
veteran of the trenches of WWI. The story is narrated by Alan.
23.7.08. Alan is playing Benjamin
Franklin in the new Trevor Griffiths play, These Are
The Times, on 26th July, BBC Radio 4, 2.30 pm.
8.7.08. Alan is to play Teiresias in the
National Theatre's Oedipus. Check out the
NT
website.
15.5.08. Orpheus Explored, 15th
May 2008, Queen Elizabeth Hall. Director Jonathan Holmes in a collaboration
with The Sixteen and Sir Harry Christophers, Edward Bond and Hans Werner Henze,
featuring Alan Howard and Virginia McKenna: Associate Artists at Southbank
Centre, The Sixteen, bring an evening of poetry and music, all emanating
from Orpheus, the father of song, on 15 May in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. For
this programme, conductor Harry Christophers has chosen three of Monteverdi's
Madrigals of War and Love to frame Henze's Orpheus behind the wire in which he
sets highly charged political poems by Edward Bond. Working in conjunction with
acclaimed writer, theatre director and filmmaker Jonathan Holmes, The Sixteen
will maximise the sonic and visual impact of these powerful works with actors
Alan Howard and Virginia McKenna reading poems by Petrarch and Denise Levertov.
11.5.08.
Sally news! Baby God: Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights:
To coincide with the Brontë museum's 2008 special exhibition No Coward
Soul, on 7th June 08 Sally will be taking part in a discussion on
Wuthering Heights at Haworth. Details on the Sally News page! Or on the
Brontë website.
21.4.08. Alan has recorded some audio
books for the new download company Silksound.
www.silksoundbooks.com
The books are R.L. Stevenson's The Strange case
of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Pavilion on the Links.
With each book is included an R. L. Stevenson short story. They are
downloadable in mp3 format.
17th March 2008. South Bank. La
Guerre, 17th March 2008, Queen Elizabeth Hall. Renaissance and modern
choral music reflecting aspects of war, with readings from the poems of Lorca,
Auden, Brecht and Eluard, by Alan Howard and Virginia McKenna.
28.2.08. Review of Scenes from a Marriage,
Financial Times, 6.9.1990.
Article: Plenty to ring a few
bells: Chichester Observer, 13.9.90.
22.2.08. Scenes from a Marriage additions.
19.1.08. There is a petition declaring
no confidence in the current funding policy of the Arts Council. It is on the
government website. Here is the link for anyone interested in signing.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Stop-the-Cull/
1.0.08.. Happy New Year
30.10.07.
Review of Alan Howard Reads from The
Spectator.
27.10.07.
Review of Alan Howard Reads from
the New Statesman.
18.10.07. Review of Alan Howard Reads from The
Guardian.
10.10.07. Front Row discussed
the Alan Howard Reads programmes with Julian barnes and Helen Simpson. It is
the last item on the agenda. If you missed it go to
Radio 4 Front
Row, Listen again.
9.10.07. Alan Howard Reads: 3.30 pm BBC R4 Monday
15th October to Friday 19th October 2007.
6.8.07. The South Bank Show's
Player King, January
1978.
5.8.07. Happy Birthday, Alan!
5.8.07. Review of Bartholomew Fair by the Glasgow
Herald, 3.11.1969.
4.8.07. Coventry Evening Standard
article from 26th July 1960. Review of
Pleasure and Repentance from the Abbey
theatre, Dublin, 18.3.1970.
17.6.07. Link
to Alan's CV on the RSC database.
15.5.07. Radio 4, 11.30 am. Sally in
discussion on Rebecca's
Daughters.
14.5.07. BBC Radio 4, 3.30 pm. Half-Sisters
by Sally Beauman, read by Lucy Briers. Anna, living and working in Rome, is
disturbed by dreams of her childhood.
4.2.07. Review of
Good from the New York Post,
14.10.1982.
3.2.07. Re-print of both
Rebecca's Tale and
The Sisters Mortland ( aka The
Landscape of Love ) this month.
25.11.06. Will's Marathon Man, article by Alix
Coleman for the TV Times 28.1.1978.
30.10.06. Poppyland Revisited, BBC 2, review by
Sean Day-Lewis, Daily Telegraph, 14.1.85.
30.10.06. Review of Antony and Cleopatra, Jack
Tinker, Daily Mail, 12.10.78.
14.10.06. Article.
A Roam of my Own, by Sally
Beauman, Observer Magazine, 7.4.1991.
17.9.06. Tidied up the Forsyte Saga pages and added,
Soames Opera from the Evening
Standard, 28.9.1990.
5.8.06. Happy Birthday
Alan!
31.7.06. My First Job, interview with Sally
Beauman from The Independent, 13.7.06.
2.6.06. Article added, from Scotland
on Sunday, 23/4/00: King of kings
by Jackie McGlone.
2.6.06. Sally news update. Daphne du Maurier Centenary Conference at
Fowey, May 07.
21.4.06. Comments on sequels etc. by
Sally Beauman in The Independent of 18.4.06: We've
been expecting you, Master Bond...;
9.4.06. Reviews of
Kings at the Tricycle theatre,
Kilburn, April 1997.
6.4.06. Paintings of actors on stage,
including Alan and Ben Kingsley ( sorry, SIR Ben Kingsley) in Waiting For Godot. Alan Howard and Sir Ben
Kingsley in Waiting for Godot, oil painting,
price on application. The artist,
Alan
Halliday is featured in the QI Exhibition opening on the 10th
March in Oxford running until the 28th April 2006. "Alan draws from
life at the theatre or on location and then finishes the paintings in his
London studio."
25.3.06.
Review of The Landscape of
Love from the Sunday Express, 27.2.05.
15.3.06. The Landscape of Love was published in
paperback format on 27.2.06.
5.3.06. Sex in the City article from the
Saturday Independent Magazine of 24.2.01.
26.2.06. Dark Angel is listed in the Daily
Telegraph's top twenty romantic reads. (Daily Telegraph / 11/2/06)
23.2.06. Article from the Guardian on Kings at
Edinburgh, Compact imagination of actor and poet, 15.8.91.
18.2.06.
BBC7 are
repeating The Forsyte Saga, Sun at 1pm
and Mon - Fri at 10am, 9pm and 2am.
13.1.06.
Farrah, theatre designer. Taken from The Times, 11.1.06.
4.1.06. Congratulations to
Christopher Logue on winning the Whitbread Poetry
Prize with 'Cold Calls'.
1.1.06. Happy New Year
20.11.05. Article in the Guardian, 26.10.05, about
the RSC/British Sound Archive recordings which have been released on a double
CD called The Essential Shakespeare.
6.11.05. Article in The Times about moving out of
Gloucestershire.
3.10.05. Two reviews of Henry V (UK
tour Summer 1976) at the Manchester Opera House from the
Oldham Evening Chronicle of 21.7.76, and
the Manchester Evening News of
21.7.76.
17.8.05. The Landscape of Love is going to be
released in America as The Sisters Mortland. Available under that title
in January 06.
17.8.05. Repeat of
Foyle's War on Friday 19th August,
ITV, 8.30pm.
5.8.05. Happy Birthday
Alan!
30.7.05. New release of Victim on 29.7.05 in selected cinemas.
4.7.05. Review: Henry and the Harfleur Rope Trick.
Wimbledon News, 30.1.76.
25.6.05. Review / Germany / Der Tagesspiegel, 2-5 Mai,
1979.
31.5.05. The Priory School information and
picture. (Thanks to Jaime Gabalda, a Sherlockian from Spain!)
21.5.05. New front page for the
Sally Beauman part of the website. Thanks
to S.D.J. Pick for the design!
13.5.05. Review of Timon of Athens (audio).
12.5.05. Review of The Revenger's Tragedy
from The Observer, 9.10.1966.
28.4.05. Article:
Howard's Royal Road, Sunday Times,
28.5.78.
26.4.05. Article from SHE Magazine,July
1990.
24.4.1965. Review of Measure for Measure,
Evening Post, 22/23.9.1965
24.4.05.
Article by Sally Beauman from The
Independent on Sunday of 20.2.05.
19.4.05. Update of font on site to
ariel completed. New section on theatre people influenced by seeing
productions with Alan in, starting with Declan
Donnellan of Cheek By Jowl.
12.4.05. New pictures for
The Way of the World. sent in by
Brigitte Uhrmann.
11.4.05. Update in News on Sally at
the Daphne du Maurier Festival.
27.3.05. Shakespeare in Britain: The Henry VI
Trilogy, Shakespeare Quarterly, Spring 1978.
27.3.05. Review of The Landscape of Love
audio book from The Guardian.
26.3.05. Review of The Hollow Crown from The Boards,
Volume III, Issue 10, 10.3.05.
25.3.05. The Oxford Literary Festival.
On 17th April 05, Sally is also appearing with Fiona Shaw and D.J. Taylor to
discuss The Writer's Talent: A Blessing or a Curse? Event 119. For more
details go to News on Sally's page or to the
Oxford Festival
Diary.
23.3.05. Review of
Landscape of Love from the Irish
Independent, 29.1.05.
22.3.05. American reviews of
Hamlet, 1970.
22.3.05. Review of The Hollow Crown from The
Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, 10.3.05.
21.3.05. Review of The Hollow Crown from The Daily Mail,
11.3.05.
20.3.05. BBC 7 are repeating
'Cry God For Harry' the World Service
production starring Alan as Hal and Henry V, with Peter Egan as Hotspur. 10 am
and 7 pm, every Sunday.
16.3.05. Review of The Hollow Crown
from The British Theatre Guide.
13.3.05. Review of The Hollow Crown, The Sunday Times,
13.3.05
8.3.05. Review from The Stage Online.
4.3.05. Added an
article from Chichester 1990.
26.2.05. New look to site!
Archive news has been updated and 2004
news moved into its own page.
26.2.05. Sally News - Sally will be appearing at The
Oxford Literary Festival on 17th April.
6.2.05. Information on
Doing The Inferno, by Sean O'Brien.
4.2.05. Update on The Hollow Crown
2.2.05. Alan is appearing in 'The
Hollow Crown' at Stratford from 3rd - 19th March 2005!!!
23.1.05. Ham and High
interview on The Landscape of
Love.
16.1.05. Additions to Sally section.
15.1.05. News of publicity for The Landscape of
Love.
14.1.05. Biography update.
14.1.05. Interview with Sally Beauman, The
Independent.
13.1.05.
Review of Landscape...,
Belfast Telegraph, 8.1.05.
12.1.05. Review of The Landscape of
Love, Sunday Telegraph, 9.1.05.
7.1.05.
Interview with Sally from BookEnds internet site.
3.1.05.
Sally update: A Little Night Reading,
Sunday Times, 3.1.05.
3.1.2005. King and Everyman, International Herald
Tribune, 17.10.81.
