Saturday, March 5, 2016
A puppet musical show co-written by Alan Ayckbourn will bring out the villainy in a nursery classic as part of celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of Potter’s birthBeatrix Potter’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04PMSaturday, February 27, 2016
Research reveals 73% of performers in British theatre and film are from middle-classA major academic study released to the Observer this weekend reveals the extent to which actors from relat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:44PMSaturday, January 16, 2016
Now that Bob Mortimer has recovered from his recent heart surgery, he can join partner Vic Reeves for their 25th anniversary tour. Expect a homely British take on the absurdIt is the tour th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:57PMMonday, January 11, 2016
London show aims to revive the faded reputation of the versatile Cockney performer Anthony NewleyA musical about the life of singer Anthony Newley is to be made in an attempt to revive his r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMSaturday, November 28, 2015
Bristol Old Vic show is latest theatrical production to use a gender swap to tackle stereotypesIt is the classic fairytale that has fired the imaginations of generations of young girls. But …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMSaturday, November 21, 2015
Katherine Soper, winner of the Bruntwood prize, is at the head of a promising group bidding to break down barriersFor any British teenage girl hoping to become a playwright, the chances are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PMSunday, November 8, 2015
Stadium-filling comedian Michael McIntyre tells Desert Island Discs of 'amazing hostility' from other comicsThe comedian Michael McIntyre has admitted to being shocked by the "hostility…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:40AMSaturday, October 24, 2015
As Lenny Henry prepares a major radio series on the history of black drama, we look at the triumphs – and travails – of its starsA tale long overdue, the story of the black actors, direc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07PMSaturday, October 10, 2015
Opera House opens centre of excellence in Thurrock to train a new generation to make the outfits it is world-famous forRoyal Opera House costume collection – in picturesThey embroidered th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:38PMSaturday, August 8, 2015
Star is latest in a line of film actors to be lured by live shows When John Hannah was a young boy in East Kilbride, the son of a toolmaker and a supermarket cleaner, a future as the star of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AMSaturday, August 1, 2015
The Sick of the Fringe initiative highlights the mental health toll of Edinburgh’s endurance testIn Edinburgh from Friday, audiences of festival fringe-goers will sit in the dark in venues…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMSaturday, June 6, 2015
This week sees the film premiere of London Road, a musical based on one of Britain’s most infamous serial killings. Local people say the area has finally moved on from a tragic timeWhen re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Professor of music pushes 'blasphemous' idea of concerts where people can talk or walk out in middle of a movement
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMThe likes of Helen Mirren, Imelda Staunton and Julia McKenzie show skills rather than surgery are the way to successBotox and surgical artifice are not the way for a woman to prolong a caree…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMFor lovers of Parisian theatre, the first days of 2011 have a slightly melancholy edge. On New Year's Eve the hugely influential English director Peter Brook finally ended his 36-year tenure…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMDame Helen Mirren, Kenneth Branagh and Jeremy Irons among actors voicing dismay at potential impact of cutsA cast of stars from the first rank of British acting talent has sounded the alarm …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMSaturday, February 7, 2015
Tamsin Greig, Haydn Gwynne and Seline Hizli all pull out of performances of the new West End musical adaption of Pedro Almodóvar’s film Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMSaturday, October 25, 2014
Supermodels family revive operetta based on 17th-century story of American Indian slave Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMSaturday, August 2, 2014
Famous for playing Danish detective Sarah Lund, Gråbøl tackles roles of two powerful women a queen and a governor in TV thriller Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSuki Webster's Edinburgh Fringe play explores the relationship between performers and their obsessive fans Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, July 26, 2014
Clothes make the comedian at this year's fringe as acts seem to have fallen under the spell of Downton Abbey Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMSaturday, July 19, 2014
Play Fred and Madge will have its first profession staging later this summer and is said to be based on the playwright's parentsJoe Orton's "lost" first play, described by his sist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSaturday, June 14, 2014
Latest venture from the director behind the slapstick in One Man, Two Guvnors involves Giffords Circus, a Trojan horse and a goose called BrianThe ancient Greek epic that is coming to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:39AMSunday, June 8, 2014
Czech-born ballerina makes her final appearance this month in the English National Ballet's Romeo and Juliet. But she is worried that needless innovations are ruining the repertoireAnyone tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30AMSaturday, May 10, 2014
The theatre director's plan for a string of temporary venues for arts and
science events will finally be realised this OctoberIf she waits long enough, a girls dreams can come true. Joan L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:35PMSaturday, March 22, 2014
Fresh from a triumph in New York, one of our most extravagantly talented stars will soon unveil one of her most cherished projects to date, Effie, a film about John Ruskin – lawyers permit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMSaturday, February 1, 2014
A spate of defections between Covent Garden and the rival company at the Coliseum, and dancers leaving to work overseas, are the latest troubles to hit an art under pressureThe brilliant Rus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, January 25, 2014
After 40 years, the British-born actress who conquered Hollywood and starred in TV's Murder, She Wrote is back on the West End stage. As she approaches her 90s, she's in her theatrical …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, January 18, 2014
Millions know him as part of C4's IT Crowd or as the charming cop in Hollywood hit Bridesmaids. Now the versatile Irish actor is making his mark on the stage in Of Mice and MenOn the Cannes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, January 11, 2014
Playwright fears celebrity culture of the West End and explains why he is now embracing a 'new artform'There can be few playwrights as devoted to the magic of live theatre as Ireland's garla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, December 21, 2013
Actors best known for their roles in TV and cinema are thrilling audiences and critics in plays full of violent, challenging actionThe revered Kenneth Tynan, who reviewed theatre for the Obs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM 
