Books
‘Harry Potter’ actor Miriam Margolyes takes aim at Steve Martin over ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ experience. He and director Frank Oz remember the day differently.
Sept. 15, 2023
Entertainment & Arts
“Well, aren’t you a punctual one?”
Nov. 12, 2014
Television
A Royal Assignment: British actress Miriam Margolyes, in Los Angeles to star in the fall CBS comedy series “Frannie’s Turn,” is moonlighting for the BBC while she’s here.
Sept. 9, 1992
Whether an ‘Earnest’ Miss Prism or Potter’s Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes is singularly suited to the part.
Jan. 29, 2006
The UK/LA Festival continues, and unless it adds “Faye Dunaway Salutes the Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber,” I can’t imagine anything in the series more satisfying than Miriam Margolyes performing her one-woman show, “Dickens’ Women.”
Oct. 15, 1994
“I really do love him--although he makes me very angry,” said British actress Miriam Margolyes of her attachment to Charles Dickens.
Feb. 21, 1990
Archives
Re “Actress Brings Dickens’ Women to Life” by Janice Arkatov, Feb. 21: British actress Miriam Margolyes feels the “American attention span is basically 20 minutes” and has adapted her show accordingly, and she adds: “I don’t want to patronize the audience” or “talk down to them,” but “I just hope there are people in this country who know who Charles Dickens is.”
March 3, 1990
How many women can you fit into one fast-moving show? An avalanche? A baker’s dozen?
“AS YOU LIKE IT”(Britain; Christine Edzard; 4 & 9 p.m.).
June 16, 1993
CBS said Wednesday that it has canceled its new comedy series “Frannie’s Turn,” about a middle-aged working wife and mother who begins to demand more respect at home and in her job as a seamstress.
Oct. 15, 1992