Monday, June 13, 2016
Gifted actor with a flair for comedy from a celebrated British theatrical dynastyEven by the colourful standards of her own family's public profile and professional achievements, Lynn Redgra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:39AMTuesday, June 7, 2016
Stage director who was a champion of new talent in the British theatreThe stage director Annie Castledine, who has died aged 77, was described by the critic Lyn Gardner as one of the arts wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:21PMMonday, May 23, 2016
Theatre scholar and cultural commentatorThe suspicion of intellectuals in the British performing arts runs deep, so it is hard to appreciate exactly the status and reputation throughout the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09AMMonday, May 16, 2016
Playwright and television screenwriter best known for The Anniversary, which was turned into a 1968 film starring Bette DavisThe playwright and television screenwriter Bill MacIlwraith, who …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMWednesday, May 11, 2016
Deft, poised supporting actor on stage and in popular television seriesThe actor Tom Beard, who has died aged 50 from cancer, was a handsome, robust supporting player generallyadmired for hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMMonday, April 18, 2016
Actor known for his roles as clergymen, favourite uncles and tragic-comic charactersThere is a great tradition in the rotundity of actors, and Roger Hammond, who has died aged 76 of cancer, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PMWednesday, April 6, 2016
Set designer responsible for the look of many memorable theatre and opera productionsJohn Gunter, who has died aged 77, nine years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, was respo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMWednesday, March 9, 2016
Theatrical impresario and film producer behind The Rocky Horror Show, Oh! Calcutta! and Monty Python and the Holy GrailWhen he was awarded a lifetime achievement gong at the Olivier theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMSunday, March 6, 2016
Elegant and meticulous actor whose work ranged from Shakespeare to EastEndersPaul Bhattacharjee, who has been found dead aged 53, was one of the country's leading British Asian actors, a key…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AMThursday, February 18, 2016
Director who worked with Tom Stoppard and was associate to Peter Hall at the National TheatreIn a long and illustrious career, the stage director Peter Wood, who has died aged 90, etched his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:20PMSunday, January 31, 2016
Stage and screen actor admired for his many classical theatrical roles who played the obsessed father in the 1970s TV drama Bouquet of Barbed WireAs an actor, there was something sinister an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:40PMMonday, January 25, 2016
Yorkshire-born actor admired for his many leading Shakespearean roles and his fine interpretations of classical comedy on Broadway and at Stratford, OntarioBrian Bedford, who has died aged 8…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Versatile stage and screen actor hailed for his roles in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Harry Potter and Love Actually Related: Alan Rickman: the most loyal, playful and generous of friends …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:58AMTuesday, January 5, 2016
Stage designer whose work graced Opera Holland Park, the Royal Ballet, the Royal Opera House and many West End theatresEven in his last West End production, the stage designer Peter Rice, wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:51PMSaturday, January 2, 2016
Versatile and familiar character actor of stage and screenTrained in tap and ballet, neat and compact in appearance, John Cater, who has died aged 77, was a masterful character act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:16PMThursday, November 12, 2015
Theatre and television director who nurtured stars and dazzled audiencesThere are few stage directors whose work, at the highest level, encompasses the plays of Joe Orton and William Douglas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMThursday, October 29, 2015
Prolific and talented writer of dialogue for television dramas and sitcomsJulia Jones, who has died aged 92, was a prominent and versatile television writer for more than 40 years, contribut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:01PMSunday, October 25, 2015
A talented Irish actor on stage and in films for Ford and HustonFor an actor who worked with two of the greatest movie directors of the last century and appeared in the world premieres of pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:57AMTuesday, October 20, 2015
Director, teacher and writer who made his mark in alternative theatre in the 1960s and 70sAlbert Hunt, who has died aged 86, was a teacher, director and controversialist who belonged to an e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08PMSaturday, September 26, 2015
In the theatre, it’s not so much what you say, as how you say it. But increasingly you feel that someone else
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMFriday, September 25, 2015
Playwright associated with the Royal Court and Orange Tree theatresThough the playwright David Cregan, who has died aged 83, was never a name on Shaftesbury Avenue, he was a skilled and orig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:01PMWednesday, September 9, 2015
Eminent Shakespearean scholar and theatre director who advocated the primacy of the playwright’s musical language in modern productionsJohn Russell Brown, who has died aged 91, was a disti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMTuesday, September 8, 2015
Leading director in fringe and touring theatre who co-founded the stage company Foco Novo, which presented groundbreaking work in the 70s and 80sRoland Rees, who has died aged 73, was a key …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMSunday, August 23, 2015
Most actors who play one of the great tragic Shakespearean roles become marked for life by the experience, but none more so,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMMonday, August 17, 2015
In 1987, three years before he died, the critic and venerable Shakespearean JC Trewin published a book of personal experience and reminiscence:
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMThursday, July 30, 2015
British actor and director acclaimed for revitalising the Stratford Festival theatre in OntarioRobin Phillips, who has died aged 75, was a golden boy of British theatre in the early part of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:10AMTuesday, July 28, 2015
Deft, poised supporting actor on stage and in popular television seriesThe actor Tom Beard, who has died aged 50 from cancer, was a handsome, robust supporting player generally admired for h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:38AMSaturday, July 18, 2015
At a time when I am more aware than ever of theatre in schools and schools in theatre, and all the great
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMThursday, July 16, 2015
Shakespeare’s Henry VI and Richard III are enjoying renewed popularity on the continent. Michael Coveney examines two companies’ contrasting approaches to the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:24PMSunday, July 12, 2015
Versatile British actor known for his stage roles in Shakespeare and the RSC’s Nicholas Nickleby who found fame in the US in Cheers and The West WingRoger Rees, who has died aged 71 after …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:29AMSunday, July 5, 2015
“Good morning to the day; and next, my gold!” Henry Goodman is about to deliver one of the best opening lines in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM 
