Friday, May 9, 2014
Standup, panel-show regular and Stephen Fry's favourite Canadian funnywoman ... on Tuesday, Katherine Ryan will be joining us in the hotseat. From her Comic Relief turn as Nicki Minaj to her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:46PMLucy Bailey's 2006 production of Titus Andronicus the Bard's bloodiest play is back at Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London. Its graphic depictions of murder and revenge are causing some …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMAs the much-loved playwright celebrates his 80th, revisit selected highlights from his stage and screen career Mark Lawson on Bennett at 80: 'everything but a national treasure' S is for spl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMWednesday, May 7, 2014
Photographer Ingrid Bugge spent nearly two years in residence with the Danish Royal Ballet and employed digital techniques to capture movement and animate dance sequences. The result is The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMFifty years ago this week, Entertaining Mr Sloane opened at the Arts Theatre Club in London. Joe Orton became the talk of the town and his short but extraordinary career took flight. Revisit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMWednesday, April 30, 2014
Watch a sketch from Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri-Burns' new show for Channel 4Cardinal Burns return to Channel 4 at 10.30pm on 30 April with a new series of their stylish and surreal comedy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:11PMTuesday, April 29, 2014
Neil Patrick Harris, Mark Rylance and Chris O'Dowd are all up for acting awards while the shows Machinal, After Midnight and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder have bagged several nomin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMSeb Cardinal and Dustin Demri-Burns return to Channel 4 at 10.30pm on 30 April with a new series of their comedy sketch show. Take a first look at what's in storeReading this on mobile? Watc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMIt's Hedwig v Les Mis, Stephen Fry v Mark Rylance and Idina Menzel v Kelli O'Hara see who's nominated for what at this year's TonysBest playAct One Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16AMMonday, April 28, 2014
Following news that Harry Hill and Steve Brown's X Factor musical is to close, we'd like to hear from those who've paid for tickets I Can't Sing X Factor musical to close after just six-we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMFriday, April 25, 2014
Neil Patrick Harris is having a ball on Broadway as Hedwig, an East German 'slip of a girly boy' whose botched sex op results in an 'Angry Inch' which also becomes the name for Hedwig's roc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMThursday, April 24, 2014
In the year of Shakespeare's 450th birthday, the box-office hit Shakespeare in Love has been adapted for the stage by Lee Hall. Go behind the scenes with the play's director Declan Donnellan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
On the Bard's 450th birthday, find out how Shakespeare became Shakespeare. A new play based on the film Shakespeare in Love, adapted by Lee Hall, has its world premiere in the West End in Ju…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59AMCould Richard III handle Hamlet in a punch-up? Is Benedick more fanciable than Beatrice? Is Falstaff craftier than Cleopatra? Celebrate Shakespeare's 450th birthday by pitting his characters…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:44AMOn the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, Michael Billington has picked the best Hamlets he's seen in each decade of his theatregoing life. To help you choose your own favourite Princ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
TS Eliot's Gus isn't the only theatre cat. Plenty of playhouses have their own resident moggy: they're not just useful as mousers but also keep up the company's spirits and make the occasion…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AMSaturday, April 19, 2014
Meet the Big House Theatre Company - young adults with remarkable life stories who take to the stage to tell their unique, compelling and sometimes troubling stories Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMFriday, April 18, 2014
With a haul of Olivier awards and the sold-out, four-star production King Charles III on its stage, the Almeida is on a roll. Mark Lawson picks the 10 best productions he's seen at the north…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
A View from the Bridge, currently revived at the Young Vic, was first staged in London in 1956. It was a dramatic year for Miller: he appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMMonday, April 14, 2014
Alex Jennings suits up as Wonka, Gemma Arterton has a laugh and Benny from Abba watches the winners take it all ... Go backstage at the Olivier awards with photographer David Levene Continue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AMLuhrmann's stage version of his film didn't get critics telling him to Foxtrot Oscar, but they didn't throw flowers at his feet eitherNot everyone likes Baz Luhrmann's high camp directorial …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:11AMSunday, April 13, 2014
The Almeida theatre's Chimerica stole the show at this year's Oliviers, winning five awards. There were also victories for Ghosts, The Book of Mormon, Othello, The Amen Corner and Les Mis. F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMGemma Arterton and Stephen Mangan host the Olivier Awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:25PMSaturday, April 12, 2014
Merrily We Roll Along at the Harold Pinter theatre has been nominated for seven awards at this year's Oliviers including best musical revival and best director (Maria Friedman). Watch clips …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMFriday, April 11, 2014
Jonathan Kent's production of Noël Coward's classic comedy Private Lives for Chichester Festival theatre has been nominated for Olivier awards for best actress (Anna Chancellor) and best re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:26PMRichard Eyre's revival of Ibsen's Ghosts for Hampstead theatre has been nominated for five awards at the Oliviers, including best actress (Lesley Manville) and best actor in a supporting rol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMOn the 100th anniversary of Pygmalion's opening night in London, revisit some of the classic stage and screen productions of George Bernard Shaw's play. Eliza Doolittle, the cockney flower g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30AMThursday, April 10, 2014
The 2014 Olivier awards ceremony will take place at the Royal Opera House in London on Sunday 13 April. Who do you think should win? Choose your favourites in our poll. Highlights of the cer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:41AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Bram Stoker was a theatre critic before he wrote Dracula, and many dramatists have sunk their teeth into vampire myths. As the fanged coming-of-age play Let the Right One In opens in London,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:46AMMonday, April 7, 2014
Adam Kammerling from the underground poetry collective Chill Pill creates a performance inspired by the proposal that the Red Road flats in Glasgow will be demolished live on television. Chi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMFriday, April 4, 2014
The star of The Office and Sherlock will play Richard III in the West End in 2014. Take a look at some highlights from his stage career at the Royal Court and Soho theatre
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:29AM 
