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SPRING AWAKENING at the Almeida Theatre | Backstage cast portraits by Marc Brenner

Laurie Kynaston (Melchior) | Amara Okereke (Wendla) | Stuart Thompson (Moritz) | Nathan Armarkwei-Laryea (Hanschen) | Joe Pitts (Georg) | Taylor Bradshaw (Frank)

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BHE (big himbo energy) // Much Ado About Nothing (2011)

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Charles Edwards as Gore Vidal in Best of Enemies (2021) at The Young Vic.

(📷: Wasi Daniju)

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"being alive, being alive, being alive, being alive"

Rosalie Craig as Bobbie in company on the west end

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The McKittrick Hotel, est. 1939

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When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!

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The Fourth Wall: A Rare View of Famous European Theater Auditoriums Photographed from the Stage

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Paul Ready as Charles Courtly in the 2010 production of London Assurance at the National Theatre

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He-

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You take your road, the decades fly. The yearnings fade, the longings die. You learn to bid them all goodbye.

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Ruth Negga as Hamlet in the St. Ann’s Warehouse production directed by Yaël Farber. Photo by Teddy Wolff (2020) IG @teddywolff

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Michael Esper making Choices that make me  s c r e a m  in Lazarus

(unlisted on Youtube, please don’t share outside of tumblr!!)

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Michael Esper as Valentine in LAZARUS

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Alan Cumming as Hamlet, 1993

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Matt Smith as Patrick Bateman in the musical adaptation of American Psycho at the Almeida Theatre (2013) photos: Alastair Muir

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Cate Blanchett as Richard II in The War of Roses