Friday, 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 01:10PMWednesday, October 17, 2012
Actor who made her name during the early years of drama on televisionAs a captivating young ingenue in Shakespeare on stage, and Jane Austen on television, Daphne Slater, who has died aged 8…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09AMWednesday, September 19, 2012
Apollo, London: Lovely to see Roger Rees again, of course, but his solo turn of speeches by, and anecdotes about, Shakespeare is thin gruel for a West End stage, an after-dinner entertainmen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMSunday, September 16, 2012
Classical actor who graced the stage with decorum and stillnessAlthough perhaps best known as Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's moustache-twirling detective, on BBC radio, John Moffatt, who …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMWednesday, September 12, 2012
Almeida, London: Although Michael Attenborough's fast-paced and lucid revival edges dangerously from pagan neutrality into medieval monotone, Jonathan Pryce's Lear is a compelling …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMTuesday, August 21, 2012
Zany US comedian with a wise-cracking line in self-mockeryPhyllis Diller, who has died aged 95, was a raucous, zany comedian, with a special line in self-deprecation bordering on flat-out se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:39PMThursday, July 26, 2012
Shakespeare's Globe, London: After ruling as the Rooster in Jerusalem, Mark Rylance returns to scenes of earlier triumphs as a comical Crookback, a childish villain of Gloucester who cloaks …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMThursday, July 19, 2012
Arts Theatre, London,: The RSC is back in town, but not, this time, the Royal Shakespeare Company - it's the all too familiar Reduced Shakespeare Company, the American RSC, with an all-…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
National Theatre, Olivier: The first thing you see is a row of tents, the encampment outside St Paul's, a world apart from the next scene, where a suited fat cat is moving like an oil s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:49AMSunday, July 8, 2012
Toby Robertson, who has died aged 83, was the artistic director of the Prospect Theatre Company from 1964 to 1978, and re-established the good name and reputation of touring theatre in the U…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMFriday, July 6, 2012
Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon: As part of the ongoing World Shakespeare Festival 2012, the RSC has joined forces with the National Theatre of Mexico to tell the story of the rise of the Aztecs i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMThursday, July 5, 2012
Shakespeare' Globe, London: The comedy is either a fantasy of the tinker, Christopher Sly, or a command performance, or a charade in the inn. But director Toby Frow does away with the framew…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Actor who made his name at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop and appeared in three of the five Beatles films, making firm friends with the Fab FourVictor Spinetti, who has died of cancer ag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMTuesday, June 12, 2012
Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park: The rain-soaked opening night of the Open Air Theatre's iconic Shakespearean comedy was cancelled after the first two acts. But we had already seen enou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMThursday, June 7, 2012
Royal Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon: There's a carnival atmosphere as the crowds gather for the Feast of Lupercal and the acclamation of the conquering hero - Gregory Doran's br…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMFriday, April 27, 2012
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: The third in the RSC's Shipwreck Trilogy is by far the best, using the new RST thrust to its full, with ghostly sprites emerging from tra…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMThursday, April 26, 2012
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: There are so many labels in this summer's Olympic Games cultural beano that first-time buyers may get lost going round the supermarket.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AMRoyal Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon: Twelfth Night sometimes opens with Viola asking where she is, sometimes with Orsino asking for more music, but on opening night in Stratford it opened…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AMWednesday, April 18, 2012
Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon: Richard III marks a new start for the Tudor dynasty, as well as the RSC's summer season in the World Shakespeare Festival. But there's nothing all that e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMTuesday, April 10, 2012
Minerva Theatre, Chichester: The 50th anniversary season at Chichester opens with a straightforward, unexceptional revival of Uncle Vanya, a play that was directed by Laurence Olivier - who …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMFriday, March 30, 2012
Playwright whose work combined poetry, politics and passionOne of the most significant British playwrights of the late 1950s and early 60s, John Arden, who has died aged 81, was in later lif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:19AMThursday, March 29, 2012
Old Vic, London: John Webster's Jacobean masterpiece used to be a fixture in the repertory theatre list, so Jamie Lloyd's magnificent revival, beautifully lit by James Farncombe, w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AMMonday, March 5, 2012
Welsh actor with a flair for playing different nationalities – not least his own, as Lloyd George and DCI Noel BainThe actor Philip Madoc, who has died aged 77 after a short illness, becam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMFriday, February 24, 2012
Young Vic, London: "I'm stupefied by the suffering I've seen," cries Patrick Stewart as William Shakespeare, returning to one of his favourite roles in a six-week run at …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMMonday, February 13, 2012
Irish stage and screen actor who was a familiar face in many British TV sitcomsThe distinctive and beguiling Irish actor David Kelly, who has died aged 82, was as familiar a face in British …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMThursday, January 26, 2012
Actor whose unpredictability never undermined his electrifying talent Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58AMMonday, November 21, 2011
Leading light of the British stage once seen as Gielgud's successorJohn Neville, who has died aged 86, was a leading light of the Old Vic, the charismatic artistic director of the Nottingham…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PMTuesday, September 27, 2011
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 01:22PMWednesday, August 31, 2011
Playwright who mixed a comic brew of weird suburban characters and absurd situationsThe playwright NF Simpson, who has died aged 92, was hailed by the critic Kenneth Tynan in 1958 as "the mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMWednesday, August 10, 2011
Actor who reigned supreme as Lear and Prospero, and was spellbinding in Stoppard and PinterJohn Wood, who has died aged 81, was one of the greatest stage actors of the past century, especial…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:21AMFerociously intelligent actor who reigned supreme in Stoppard and Shakespeare Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:21AM 
