Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Musical comedy duo Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement reunite for a string of live dates after solo roles in Hollywood and on TVOK, band meeting! The Flight of the Conchords have announced th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Monday, October 16, 2017
By his mid-20s he had scooped the Perrier award and landed his own TV show. But Sean Hughes never wanted to be a stadium standup. Mark Steel and Rhona Cameron pay tribute to a troubled talen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2017
He gave Peter Brook his big break, helped Elaine Paige conquer her fear, showed Griff Rhys Jones the joy of farce and dazzled a teenage Samuel West. They celebrate the great director who has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PM[SHARE]A star-studded new West End production of Harold Pinter's classic play, directed by Ian Rickson, is scheduled for 2018It was famously savaged by theatre critics who dismissed it as "puzzling…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AM[SHARE]Friday, September 8, 2017
A limited number of tickets at the National Theatre's production will allow audiences to watch the play from onstage restaurantIts intense plot may be enough to give anyone indigestion, but …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 19, 2017
The star of Marvel's blockbuster is the subject of his father's comedy show at the Edinburgh fringe. They discuss the art of getting laughs, sending Spidey back to school and finding the old…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2017
A puppet blockbuster, a Bigfoot opera and a Northern Soul dance marathon all feature in the lineup of the 70th Edinburgh festivalEdinburgh Playhouse Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 20, 2017
Artistic director and founder cites lack of increase in Arts Council England support for decision to leave the Yorkshire company next AprilBarrie Rutter is to step down as artistic director …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Monday, June 26, 2017
'There's no coming back from this' … After 43 years together, Helen is shocked that her husband is leaving Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]'But if I don't do this, what else can I do?' … A Welsh dairy farmer reflects on the real cost of a flat white Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]'People are petrified' … An immigration lawyer in Manchester sees fear " and hope " in his community Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM[SHARE]'I'm a warrior who's been waiting for a war' … Internet troll Carol whips up Brexit fury in Mansfield Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM[SHARE]Friday, June 23, 2017
The Guardian's pioneering dramatic collaboration inspired by last year's EU referendum offers characters who lay bare our complex national responses A year on from last summer's Brexit vote,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Monday, June 19, 2017
As the Guardian launches Brexit Shorts, a series of online films about the seismic effects of the EU referendum, playwrights David Hare and Abi Morgan assess the UK's political turmoilNine l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 13, 2017
To mark the Globe's 20th birthday, we raid the Guardian archives to see how it has divided critics, sparked academic arguments, faced down political protests " and weathered the British summ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Lily Cole wants a green century, Girli wants a housing revolution, and Liam Williams wants to boot out the billionaire club … some of Britain's most talented young artists spell out the el…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM[SHARE]Toyah Willcox plays the time-travelling Elizabeth I in the Royal Exchange's version of the film that caused outrage after 1977's silver jubileeDerek Jarman's anarchic punk film Jubilee is to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2017
Labour of Love, to be staged in the West End, is the latest political play by the dramatist who has also written two short scripts about Brexit for the GuardianMartin Freeman and Sarah Lanca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Welsh director was best known for The Romans in Britain, which led to an obscenity trial, and for co-founding the English Shakespeare CompanyMichael Bogdanov, the bold theatre director who s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 30, 2017
Stage adventure of JK Rowling's grown-up wizard prepares to refresh its lineup, while Broadway production is in the worksThe new cast has been announced for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Duke of York's theatre, LondonA puppet Peppa and her family have fun around the house in a touring stage version that stays close to the TV series and gets the kids singing and giggling "Exc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2017
DBC Pierre wrote in a fever, Frank Turner dabbled in thrash and Nikki Amuka-Bird jumped off a cliff. Artists reveal how they got to the top " and how you can tooThe actor: Nikki Amuka-Bird, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2017
How do you capture the spirit of Lisbon? With a show featuring fado, sunbathing dancers and an enigmatic walrus. The Tanztheater Wuppertal star recalls making Masurca FogoIt's bitterly cold …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 8, 2017
Katherine Soper awarded £16,000 and residency at Royal Exchange for 'first proper play' about mental health and changes to the benefits systemThe UK's biggest playwriting competition has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AM[SHARE]Friday, December 30, 2016
Joanna Lumley plays Viola, David Threlfall is Prospero and Daniel Mays sees a dagger before him in our latest set of videos to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright's deathSix more fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 10, 2016
Critically panned but hugely popular jukebox musical to close doors after 4,600 performances at Dominion theatreTwelve years after it opened, the Queen and Ben Elton musical We Will Rock You…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PM[SHARE]Friday, December 2, 2016
The great Shakespearean answered your questions on his extraordinary careerSimon Russell Beale joined us to talk about tackling King Lear " a mountain of a role, as Peter Brook once called i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 22, 2016
Choreographer behind Pan's People, the dance troupe loved by Top of the Pops fansWhen 15 million viewers tuned into Top of the Pops each week during the show's 1970s heyday, the appeal exten…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:09PM[SHARE]Friday, October 21, 2016
Rice will follow Mark Rylance and Dominic Dromgoole in top job at the theatre when she takes over in April 2016The job description demanded "visionary and charismatic leadership", the abilit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55PM[SHARE]Friday, October 14, 2016
Homeland and Wolf Hall star will appear in The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? at Theatre Royal Haymarket in spring 2017Damian Lewis is to star in the second West End revival of an Edward Albee play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2016
The filthy comedy " a hit for the BBC this summer " will be staged at the venue where it first started out as a monologueFleabag, this year's breakout TV anti-heroine, is returning to the th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:46AM[SHARE] 
