Friday, July 26, 2013
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: Nancy Meckler's revival of a "problem" play that always delights begins with a series of mimsy tableaux in silhouette.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMSaturday, July 20, 2013
Michael Coveney explores the work of Michael Grandage Company Futures, taking a look at the group’s response piece to The Cripple of Inishmaan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:48AMThursday, July 18, 2013
Elegant and meticulous actor whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to EastEndersPaul Bhattacharjee, who has been found dead aged 53, was one of the country's leading British Asian actors, a ke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:53AMMonday, July 8, 2013
St Peter's Church, Manchester: Kenneth Branagh hasn't played in Shakespeare for more than ten years, but his technical assurance and deceptive fluency and naturalness remain unaltered. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMFriday, July 5, 2013
Palace, Manchester: As a beautifully lit new work off the Robert Wilson derriere-garde assembly line, The Old Woman at the fourth biennial Manchester International Festival is a stunner - co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMWednesday, June 26, 2013
Royal Shakespeare Company actor who later pursued a successful career in TV crime dramaDavid Lyon, who has died aged 72, was a popular and versatile actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PMSunday, June 23, 2013
American-born dramatist known for her affinity with French absurdist theatre and her many BBC radio adaptationsOlwen Wymark, who has died aged 81, was an American-born fringe theatre and BBC…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Graceful stage actor who stood out in Doctor Who on TV and the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate FactoryIn a long and distinguished career, the actor Aubrey Woods, who has died aged 85, cov…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PMWednesday, April 24, 2013
Olivier, National Theatre: Nicholas Hytner and Adrian Lester present a soldier's tragedy in a contemporary military compound that could be anywhere - Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan - where t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMRoyal and Derngate, Northampton: Shakespeare is a rarity in the cash-strapped reps, but Gary Sefton's brilliant Northampton Dream in the always delightful Theatre Royal with just eight …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMMonday, April 22, 2013
Director and writer celebrated for his work at Chichester Festival theatre and the BBCThe career of Patrick Garland, who has died aged 78, was as varied as it was productive. An actor, produ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:35AMMonday, March 11, 2013
Welsh-born actor and Richard Burton's first wife, she moved to the US after their split and co-founded a famous New York discoSybil Christopher, who has died aged 83, was the injured party i…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PMMonday, February 25, 2013
Trafalgar Studios, London: What is the world of Macbeth? Medieval, Gothic, mythical? Jamie Lloyd's production in the opening volley of his Trafalgar Transformed season goes completely p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:06AMMonday, February 18, 2013
Genial star of the sitcom The Good Life who impressed in a range of roles on stageWhen he played Hamlet as a young man, Richard Briers, who has died aged 79 after suffering from a lung condi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31AMMonday, February 4, 2013
Theatre Royal, Norwich: The opening in the Theatre Royal, Norwich, of this year's Propeller tour signals the unusual step of reviving two successes of 2006/7. Running out of plays must …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMThursday, January 31, 2013
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: There's a striking take on the separate worlds of The Winter's Tale in Lucy Bailey's new RSC production, designed by William Du…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMSunday, January 27, 2013
Musical theatre star known as 'the champagne soprano'Lizbeth Webb, one of the great forgotten stars of British musical theatre in the 1940s and 1950s, has died aged 86. Known as "the champag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMSunday, January 20, 2013
Michael Coveney catches up with the Adelaide Festival's new artistic director David Sefton and finds there is a special UK connection to his first programme
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, January 18, 2013
Vibrant actor who achieved success in Bollywood films, West End musicals and on Coronation StreetSophiya Haque's performance in Peter Nichols's Privates on Parade, which opened last month at…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMThursday, January 17, 2013
Actor who found her true calling as translator of the French dramatist Jean AnouilhLucienne Hill, who has died aged 89, was best known for her translations of the French dramatist Jean Anoui…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMFriday, January 11, 2013
Union Theatre, London: The Shakespeare Apocrypha - which are all about attribution, not authorship - include relatively well known titles like Sir John Oldcastle, or the Yorkshire Tragedy; b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Donmar Warehouse: Rome under Caesar is Holloway Prison, and the inmates are putting on a protest show. It's a case of 22 jail birds, one guvnor, and the cages are rattling with the soun…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMFriday, November 30, 2012
Actor who shared the stage with her husband, Paul ScofieldSlim, dark, quick-moving and pretty, the actor Joy Parker appeared at the Birmingham Rep in her early 20s and, in 1942, pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:26AMFriday, November 16, 2012
Actor in One Man, Two Guvnors who switched from Wall Street to BroadwayVery few actors start out in middle age, having thrown off a previous life as a high-flying money broker, and live…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:53AMTuesday, November 13, 2012
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 11:34AMWednesday, November 7, 2012
Outstanding actor of stage and screen who made his name as Bri in A Day in the Death of Joe EggThe British theatre changed for ever when Joe Melia, as the sardonic teacher Bri, pushed a seve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09AMFriday, November 2, 2012
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: You never feel the Royal Shakespeare Company is comfortable with the bard's sitcom that brought Falstaff back from the history plays by r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AMFriday, October 26, 2012
Versatile actor who for many years was closely associated with Alan AyckbournElizabeth Bell, who has died aged 71 of cancer of the oesophagus, was an accomplished and versatile act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PM 
