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Albert Herring review – ENO heralds new era with witty staging of Britten’s story of a mummy’s boy

English National Opera’s first shared production between London and Salford is a fluent and finely sung take on Britten’s 1947 comic opera. Antony McDonald’s lively staging gives the slender tale a sitcom feel

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2025

Freeform Announced Its Halloween Lineup For October, But I'm Really Confused By One Movie's Inclusion

One Spooky Season lineup choice has me puzzled.

Cinemablend · Sep 2, 2025

Streaming: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical and the best adaptations of classic children’s books

The latest all-singing version of Matilda, now on Netflix, joins an impressive library of thoughtful film versions of seminal kids’ books, from Paddington to Kes

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2023

Five awful things Roald Dahl wrote in his children's books as Rishi Sunak slams changes

Many of Roald Dahl's famous children's books are being re-written to cut out inappropriate phrases - but as Rishi Sunak joins those condemning the re-write, just how bad were the books?

Daily Mirror · Feb 20, 2023

Roald Dahl's Matilda never gets old and now is a perfect time for it

THIS world-renowned children’s novel originally published in 1988 has gone through various equally whimsical and heartwarming iterations, from the…

The National (Scotland) · Jan 29, 2023

Mum who couldn't fit in kitchen and spent £5k on takeaways sheds 14 stone

"They always used to compare me to Dawn French and anyone big, like Miss Trunchbull or Bruce Bogtrotter."

Liverpool Echo · Jan 14, 2023

How Emma Thompson made a ‘shocking’ transformation for ‘Matilda the Musical’

Actor says it was ‘a really massive challenge’ to change her look and become the brutish, formidable headmistress Trunchbull.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 28, 2022

Inside the biggest change Netflix made to 'Matilda the Musical'

The final four minutes of "Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical" are, in a way, both a new ending and a new beginning. The villainous Miss Trunchbull is no longer the school headmistress; the dim-witted Wormwoods are no longer Matilda's parents.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 27, 2022

Movie review: 'Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical' charms despite a villain requiring much suspension of disbelief

It isn't Matilda's absurdly lousy parents.

Tribune News Service · Dec 22, 2022

Boris Johnson adviser plans to tell all in new book

Samuel Kasumu mysteriously resigned last year

Evening Standard · Dec 14, 2022