Thursday, 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 05:00AMSunday, June 28, 2015
Versatile Irish stage actor who became a familiar face across British dramaBefore he became a familiar face on television and cinema screens, the outstanding Irish actor TP McKenna…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMFriday, June 26, 2015
Theatre entrepreneur who nurtured female talent through the Women’s Playhouse Trust and founded the Wapping ProjectJules Wright, who has died of cancer aged 67, was ago-getting and inspira…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PMSunday, June 7, 2015
Stage and screen actor whose good looks and rich voice captivated audiences for 60 yearsRichard Johnson, who has died aged 87, was an MGM contract star and an associate artist at the Royal S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:19PMFriday, June 5, 2015
Prominent Belfast playwright for whom the Troubles in Northern Ireland were a recurring themeThe playwright Christina Reid, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 73, was one of a prominent …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:49PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Like Sleuth, to which it is inferior, Deathtrap isn't really a thriller at all. It's a spoof, with a few manufactured thrills and spills and some fairly funny lines.
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 05:58PMActor with great stage presence who found his metier in comic and satirical roles
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMNew York theatre is in crisis - with word of mouth so bad that shows are closing even before opening night.
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:58PMEnergetic founder of the pioneering experimental theatre club La MaMaThe major impetus and example for much of our first fringe and alternative theatre 50 years ago came from New York, speci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMSaturday, May 9, 2015
There’s no way we can’t work,” said Rufus Norris and Tessa Ross back in January – except together, it now transpires, after
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMSunday, May 3, 2015
Stage and screen actor known for his roles in The Lion in Winter, Excalibur and Caravaggio Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PMSaturday, April 11, 2015
In his recent round of interviews marking his retirement from the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner told Michael Billington, when challenged on why
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMSunday, March 29, 2015
At the end of the third week of rehearsals for the Arthur Miller centenary production of Death of a Salesman for the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM 
