{"id":561538,"date":"2026-05-02T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561538\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T00:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:38:09","slug":"widows-bay-matthew-rhys-jokes-new-series-heavily-based-on-fishguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/561538\/","title":{"rendered":"Widow&#8217;s Bay: Matthew Rhys jokes new series &#8216;heavily based on&#8217; Fishguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, Rhys took to stages across the country in Playing Burton, a one-man theatre show in which he portrayed his hero, Richard Burton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The shows raised money for the Welsh National Theatre, set up by actor and philanthropist Michael Sheen to tell stories from Wales. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rhys is now in talks about taking Playing Burton to Broadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I hadn&#8217;t been on stage in 16 years, so terrifying as it was, it was one of the most gratifying things I&#8217;ve ever done within acting,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re still half talking about it possibly having a small re-emergence in New York next year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So it definitely still has a little life, but as memories go, it will be forever one of the most cherished I have.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, Rhys took to stages across the country in Playing Burton, a one-man theatre show in which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-561538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}