Monday, February 16, 2015
Wolf Hall star says he rejected two roles in Empire of the Sun after consulting the I Ching Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25AMSaturday, February 14, 2015
The London dance house’s annual celebration of flamenco dance and music is celebrating its 12th year. Take a look at some of the acts who will be performingThe festival runs from 16 Februa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMFriday, February 13, 2015
Contestants at the UK Pun Championships fire off gags on subjects including the general election, contraceptive ice-cream and Richard III at an event held on Thursday as part of Dave's Leice…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AMThe politically astute comedian is on tour with his arms trade exposé Cuckooed. He joins us to answer your questions in a live webchat at 1pm GMT on Monday 16 February. Post yours in the co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:51AMLeo Kearse has triumphed at the UK Pun Championships, held as part of Dave’s Leicester Comedy festival. Here are some of his gags Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:41AMThursday, February 12, 2015
Groundlings at the mercy of hot wax and bad backs (Authentic Globe experience, 7 February)? Audiences at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse should be grateful for relatively limited authenticity. B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PMTheatre production takes inspiration from designer’s runway shows and depicts a meeting between McQueen and a girl who breaks into his home to steal a dressFive years after his death, a ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AMTuesday, February 10, 2015
Alan Rickman talks about the 'impossible aim' of great writers and recalls working on Antony and Cleopatra in Stratford with Peter Brook, who told the actors: "You'll never be as good as the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:05PMOn the 10th anniversary of his death, test your knowledge of the man behind Death of a Salesman, All My Sons and A View from the Bridge Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:10AMStage show based on the yuletide favourite about Santa’s hapless helper will open at the Dominion theatre in November 2015 Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:09AMMonday, February 9, 2015
The star chatted to us about The X Files, returning to Miss Havisham and leaping on top of Paolo NutiniHot off the heels of her prequel to A Streetcar Named Desire, Gillian Anderson popped b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:58AMMore than 50 years after his stage debut, Michael Gambon has announced that he is retiring from the theatre. Here’s a reminder of some of his celebrated performances in plays by Beckett, S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:22AMFriday, February 6, 2015
The actor, who has just directed her own prequel to A Streetcar Named Desire, is joining us to answer your questions at 1pm GMT on Monday 9 February – post them in the comments below 4.21p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:21AMAward-winning Broadway show based on the Chiwetel Ejiofor film will open at the Adelphi theatre in London in SeptemberKinky Boots, the heartwarming British film about a Midlands shoe factory…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:47AMGillian Anderson resumes her role as Blanche DuBois in a prequel to Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, inspired by the Young Vic theatre's acclaimed production in 2014. The film …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMThursday, February 5, 2015
As she returns to the character of Blanche DuBois in the short film The Departure, Gillian Anderson recalls the Young Vic's celebrated production of A Streetcar Named Desire, performed on a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:10AMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Al Murray, the Pub Landlord, hits the campaign trail in Thanet South, where he is standing at the general election against Ukip leader Nigel Farage. The comedian-turned-politician says he de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Henry IV Parts I and II, directed by Gregory Doran, is out now from Opus Arte on DVD and Blu-ray. Watch Antony Sher's 'magnificent, magnetic Fal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMMonday, February 2, 2015
As Brooklyn’s newly-restored Kings Theatre stages a grand opening concert we take a look at the lavish, meticulously refurbished interior Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMSunday, February 1, 2015
In Roald Dahl’s novel, Willy Wonka opens his doors to Charlie Bucket, Grandpa Joe and co at ‘ten o’clock sharp’ on the ‘first day in the month of February’. Now it’s your chanc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMSaturday, January 31, 2015
Actor Geraldine McEwan, famous for her 1985 portrayal of Lucia in EF Benson’s pithy comedy, and who in later life became the face of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, has died Continue rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PMTake a look at another collection of the groundbreaking sets created by contemporary designers featured in World Scenography 1990-2005 by Eric Fielding and Peter McKinnon. Click on each phot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30AMFriday, January 30, 2015
The actor, who recently collapsed on stage yet returned to finish the show, pulls out of production after 11 performancesBrian Blessed has withdrawn from the production of King Lear at Holy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AMThe original London cast of the hit American musical, which recently celebrated its 100th performance in the West End, have recorded an album. See Beverley Knight and Killian Donnelly perfor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:14AMThe comic actor, currently appearing in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in the West End, is joining us to answer your questions in a webchat from noon onwards on Tuesday 3 February…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMWhere do writers find inspiration and come up with their best ideas? Some clues are in a new collection of portraits by Simon Annand, commissioned by Bruntwood and the Royal Exchange theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMThursday, January 29, 2015
Director Jamie Lloyd and star James McAvoy rule today’s reviews with their West End revival of the zany Peter Barnes comedy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:21PMIn his first major Shakespearean role, John Hurt was one of the 'star-cross'd lovers' in a Coventry production that attracted more interest than he expected. He recalls how the tragedy's lin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMPeter Barnes’s wickedly dark, surreal 1965 comedy is the latest classic to get transformed at Trafalgar Studios, London. Playing an earl with a messiah complex, James McAvoy heads a cast i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMWednesday, January 28, 2015
As his long awaited new play opens at the National Theatre, turn Inspector Hound and sniff out the answers to these 10 questions about the great playwright Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:23AM 
