The second installment, The Sandman: Act II, is set to premiere on Audible on September 22; Michael Sheen returns as Lucifer. Read more below:
Ler maisJames McAvoy is coming back as Morpheus in Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman: Act II” audio drama — set to premiere exclusively on Audible this fall.
The audio series will continue Audible’s adaptation the best-selling graphic novel series written by Gaiman and published by DC. “The Sandman: Act II” will debut Sept. 22, 2021, on Audible at this link. Amazon-owned Audible announced its order for seasons 2 and 3 of “The Sandman” earlier this year, after launching the first installment a year ago.
Ahead of the part 2 premiere, Audible will make the first installment of “The Sandman” available for free starting today. Previously, the series was available only via Audible Premium Plus ($14.95/month) or as an a la carte purchase for $34.95.
Actors Michael Sheen, Siân Phillips and Kezrena James attended a virtual event for National Theatre to discuss Under Milk Wood, in which the shared their thoughts on the production, the rehearsals, the performances and more.
Watch the video below:
We have uploaded screencaptures on our photo gallery:
In an article published on the New Statesman page, Michael Sheen tells about the importance of giving under-represented backgrounds a voice, the aim of the project “A Writing Chance”:
Ler maisUnpaid internships and an increasingly London-centric industry are preventing people from lower-income backgrounds from entering the arts. I want to change that.
As I heard it, Beryl Reid was visiting a friend performing at the National Theatre. The visit over, she said her goodbyes, picked up her shopping bags and headed for the stage-door exit. A few turns down similar-looking backstage corridors later, she found herself standing in the middle of a crowd scene in Julius Caesar. Like something out of a terrible dream, there she was, shopping in hand, a full house across the footlights and Brutus in full flow before her! Rather than recoiling or freezing in horror, the late and truly great Beryl Reid set her shopping down and confidently took her place among the toga-clad Roman crowd. When Brutus was finished, she picked up her bags, left the stage with the rest of the crowd and continued out of the theatre to get her bus.
Michael Sheen and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation have joined forces to create a new project called A Writing Chance to help “new and aspiring storytellers from under-represented backgrounds.”
We sought fresh perspectives and great stories from people whose voices have historically not been heard in publishing and the media.
The 11 writers selected for A Writing Chance will receive £1,500 bursaries, one-to-one mentoring with industry leaders, publication or broadcast of their work and more.
This UK-wide project is co-funded by Michael Sheen and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and supported by media partners New Statesman and Daily Mirror. The project is delivered by New Writing North and literature organisations nationally, with research from Northumbria University.
Click here to learn more about the project.
He talked to the Mirror about it:
Ler maisIt’s official! Good Omens is returning to Amazon for a new batch of six episodes, with shooting beginning in Scotland in September. Michael Sheen is reprising his role as the angel Aziraphale. The first poster has been released and you can check it out on our photo gallery:
More below:
Ler maisUnder Milk Wood is on the National Theatre stage since June 16, but the press night took place last Wednesday (24), which has brought some good reviews to the production and Michael Sheen’s performance. You will find some reviews below, but before them, check out some photos from both the rehearsals and the play:
Now to the reviews:
Nor could you wish for a more loquacious, richer narrator than hirsute, woody-voiced Sheen, who looks like he’s been training outside an off-licence.
Evening Standard (4/5 stars)
Ler maisA charismatic Michael Sheen is part showman, part shaman in this staging of Dylan Thomas’s 1954 radio play, conjuring a Welsh town into lyrical, beguiling life with mostly older actors on a bare stage.
The fourth season of There’s Something About Movies saw Michael Sheen appear in only two episodes, but on the other hand it brought us his Good Omens and Staged co-star and friend David Tennant as guest and Team Saunders member. Check out the screencaptures on our photo gallery:
Michael Sheen will join Good Omens composer David Arnold on stage during his concert A Circle of Sound in celebration of the Royal Albert Hall 150th anniversary on July 19 at 7:30pm. It will be its first full-capacity event since it was closed due to the pandemic on March 2020. Read more on the concert:
David Arnold (James Bond films, Independence Day, Sherlock) turns his compositional genius to create a musical snapshot of the Hall’s unique history. Let this new ten-movement work, titled A Circle of Sound, take you on a sonic journey through our first 150 years.
Special guests including Melanie C, Michael Sheen, Nicola Adams, Brian Cox, Sanjeev Bhaskar, LionHeart and Helen Pankhurst will join David on stage.
Creative agency People – who produced the show and visuals for the 2019 Special Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies – and film production house White Stone Media will bring to show to life on the big screen.
Local choirs, schools, and other community groups worked with David for over a year to compose this new piece. They will also take to the stage to show the importance of our community after this year of turmoil, supported by our very own Albert’s Orchestra and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain.
We can’t wait to welcome you back for this special anniversary event celebrating our history this summer.
Tickets are available here.
Prodigal Son came back last January with a brand new, albeit shorter season, with new characters like Catherine Zeta-Jones’ Dr. Vivian Capshaw and Alan Cumming’s Simon Hoxley, and a killer cliffhanger. Sadly however, it turned out to be the last one after being canceled by Fox.
While the show’s future is being decided, check out the screencaptures from the second and (for now) last season of Prodigal Son on our photo gallery:
In an interview to Deadline’s Contenders Television award-season event, Catherine Zeta-Jones revealed she joined Prodigal Son season 2 to play Dr. Vivian Capshaw because of her fellow Welsh Michael Sheen, who she had never worked with:
Ler mais“I’d seen the show, I loved the show. I watched it because of my hometown boy, literally from my hometown in Wales, which is this tiny little place in the middle of the map there, is Michael Sheen, who I’d been wanting to work with. So, that’s been in my bucket list and I went, ‘Huh, let me speak to the producers and see what they have in store.’ I’m always drawn toward the darker side of family kind of dysfunctional-ness if that’s a word. I think historically great drama comes out of family stories. You think of The Godfather, you think of The Sopranos on television, you think of, you know, Breaking Bad. I mean, something about the storyline of it being a family because we can relate to it. As dysfunctional as this particular family is, it’s still a family at the end of the day. There are some principles in there that we can all relate to.”