Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Success of the screen version of Les Misérables has revived Universal Pictures' interest in filming the classic West End show• Andrew Lloyd Webber: modern musicals lack 'good songs'• To…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:39AMWolf Hall is vast, Middlemarch vaster. Can they work on stage? All you need is an eye for drama, their adapters tell Matt Trueman – and three spare yearsThe Great Gatsby is less than 50,00…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMMonday, December 2, 2013
Composer speaks out on new breed of West End smash shows ahead of premiere of his new work Stephen WardIt's a comment that will leave Tim Minchin and Elton John smarting: Andrew Lloyd Webber…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMFriday, November 29, 2013
Murder She Wrote actor to reprise role of Madame Arcati in production of Noel Coward's Blithe SpiritAngela Lansbury will make her first appearance on the London stage for almost 40 years in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:53AMThursday, November 28, 2013
The former EastEnders star's bunker at Hampstead theatre, in London, has no window, no phone signal and it's hot enough to do Bikram yoga in – but it's a good meeting place• Read more My…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:46AMWednesday, November 27, 2013
Former Neighbours star makes non-panto debut in revival of Alan Ayckbourn's Things We Do for LoveAustralian soap stars have form on British stages. Jason Donovan pulled on Joseph's technicol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AMTuesday, November 26, 2013
The EastEnders actor says he wishes to take to the stage again because of his mum: 'She's been to every play I've done'Danny Dyer wants to do more theatre – to please his mum.The actor, on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMMonday, November 25, 2013
Veteran actor starring in Beckett-Pinter double bill says 'I might as well go out with a bang' 46 years after New York debutIan McKellen has suggested that his current Broadway outing, a dou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMFriday, November 22, 2013
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui star explains why it's important to keep a shipshape dressing room at London's Duchess theatre – and where he got that bottle of Manflu• Read more My Dre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:51AMWednesday, November 20, 2013
Bridget Christie is shortlisted alongside Steve Coogan for best comedy: other nominees include Othello, Chimerica and DraculaEdinburgh Comedy award winner Bridget Christie has been shortlist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMTuesday, November 19, 2013
After a beleaguered three years, in which it has not recouped its $75m costs, producers are to transfer the musical to Las VegasAfter three years, at least six major injuries and several hig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMMonday, November 18, 2013
Composer, who was awarded special prize at last night's Evening Standard theatre awards, said material success brought with it obligations to next generation of practitionersAndrew Lloyd Web…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:29AMFriday, November 15, 2013
Playwright Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin will contribute to the Royal Shakespeare Company productionMatilda, the Royal Shakespeare Company's megahit musical, will be made into a film – thou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMThursday, November 14, 2013
Life-sized artificial comedian RoboJase – modelled on Gadget Show presented Jason Bradbury – is set to share the stage with professionals at Birmingham's Glee ClubComedians talk about th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AMNo Hamlet. No Willy Loman. No Jimmy Porter. Male characters have always been centre stage. So what are the great parts for women? We asked Britain's leading actresses to tell usNancy Carroll…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMWednesday, November 13, 2013
New artistic director Vicky Featherstone also cues up plays from Tim Crouch and Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, plus a futuristic crime thriller and a footballer sex scandal dramaPlaywright Simon Step…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:13AMMonday, November 11, 2013
'As brilliant in trousers as he is in a dress': New York's critics love Rylance as Olivia and Richard IIIMark Rylance has received another batch of unashamedly awestruck reviews from New Yor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMThe Canadian singer will be the next to turn a bestselling album in a jukebox musical following the likes of Green DayAlanis Morissette is to find out how her songs go down in a theatre, aft…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:53AMSaturday, November 9, 2013
After three years as Holby City’s most complex medic, Matt Trueman finds out what drives award-winning actor Jimmy Akingbola
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:32AMFriday, November 8, 2013
Nicholas Hytner, Rufus Norris and Richard Eyre join Lyndsey Turner in hunt for best director as prize shortlist announcedThree National Theatre artistic directors will go head to head at thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:17AMThe Charlie and the Chocolate Factory star tells how his spacious digs at Theatre Royal Drury, in London, helps him get into characterMy dressing room for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMThursday, November 7, 2013
David Gilmore and Guy Kitchenn exit stage left from up-and-coming theatreLondon's St James theatre is set to lose both its artistic and executive directors little more than a year after it o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AMWednesday, November 6, 2013
Award celebrating playwrights on both sides of the Atlantic goes to Chimerica writer Kirkwood and New York-based DoranLucy Kirkwood and Bathsheba Doran have become the first recipients of th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:40AMTuesday, November 5, 2013
Romeo and Juliet star returns to theatrical roots as part of 24 Hour Plays celebrity galaDouglas Booth, who plays Romeo in Julian Fellowes' recent film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, is to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMMonday, November 4, 2013
After six years in 'retirement', Staines's finest is set to return in Ali G: Rezurection, on Fox network's FXX comedy channelAli G is back in da house – at least, if your house is in the U…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMSaturday, November 2, 2013
Acclaimed director Sam Gold to direct McGregor in The Real Thing, opening October 2014Ewan McGregor is gearing up make his Broadway debut, it was announced on Thursday. The Trainspotting act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMThursday, October 31, 2013
Numerous safety violations led to death of Sarah Guyard-Guillot in 2012, investigation findsCirque du Soleil has been fined for a string of safety failings that led to the death of an acroba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:35AMNumerous safety violations led to death of Sarah Guyard-Guillot in 2012, investigation findsCirque du Soleil has been fined for a string of safety failings that led to the death of an acroba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:35AMWednesday, October 30, 2013
The candlelit Sam Wannamaker theatre is on the same site as the Globe, where Arterton made her professional stage debutForget Quantum of Solace and Prince of Persia, Gemma Arterton is about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMMonday, October 28, 2013
From 'mouldy British sex farce' to 'thrilling theatre', the Mike Nichols staging of Pinter's classic play draws mixed responsesBond is back on Broadway, and this time Daniel Craig is starrin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AMFriday, October 25, 2013
The Doll's House star explains how sharing a room at the Duke of York's theatre, London, makes for a merry – if messy – spaceIt's a typical West End dressing room: not the most spacious,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AM 
