Irving Wardle obituary by Michael Coveney

Distinguished critic who chronicled the development of British theatre through a postwar golden age It seems extraordinary that arguably the leading actor of the past 50 years, Ian McKellen, and certainly the most distinguished theatre critic, Irving Wardle, who has died aged 93, should both have cut their teeth on the same northern amateur stage, the Bolton Little theatre. Irving's father, John Wardle, a librarian a…

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