Saturday, October 13, 2018
A new book helps BAME actors shrug off stereotypes and show their real talentsNeed a convincing member of a street gang for a TV show? Or a suspected terrorist for a police interrogation sce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 9, 2018
Bristol's Old Vic confronts its controversial 250-year-old past on its relaunch after a £25m faceliftOne of the oldest theatres in Europe, Bristol Old Vic, is finally to have a proper fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2018
Rose Matafeo's take on twentysomething life is toast of the FringeNew Zealander Rose Matafeo has won the coveted best comedy show award at the Edinburgh festival fringe. Steve Coogan, one of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 25, 2018
New Zealander's show about sex and modern social mores scoops top comedy gongThe New Zealander Rose Matafeo has won the coveted best comedy show award at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.Her wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Influential avant garde creative force who worked with David Bowie dies in Italy, aged 80Lindsay Kemp, the experimental British choreographer and mime, who made his name in the 1960s and col…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 14, 2018
This year's Edinburgh festival features many young standups with parents " from Mark Steel to Gyles Brandreth " who blazed the same trailAmong the many voices booming out across comedy venue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2018
He's probably the most notable stage actor around, a master of the classics who seems to be making Shakespeare's greatest characters his own. Next on the agenda is Macbeth at London's Almeid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 8, 2018
Poorer drama students face an uphill struggle, with funding cuts and rising fees. But British theatre may be the loser unless more actors from a range of backgrounds take centre stageWhen Ir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2018
Dramatists behind a C4 film and two plays about the referendum must contend with the way facts and key players in this divisive issue are still shiftingIt is the divisive issue that will com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 17, 2018
Lost memoir reveals playwright's vanities and key friendshipsFrom the haunting theatricality of An Inspector Calls, to the comic charm of The Good Companions and When We Are Married, the boo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Written in the 1890s, censored in the 1960s, tale of young desire Spring Awakening is back on stage as a musicalA story once banned from the British stage due to its celebration of adolescen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42PM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2018
Award-winning playwright Lucy Prebble tells how Guardian writer Luke Harding's account of the 2006 murder inspired her new dramaWhen Lucy Prebble tackled financial fraud and the collapse of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 21, 2018
Story of Scottish meteorologist James Stagg's crucial intervention in Operation Overlord comes to the West End in tense drama PressureA tense historical drama celebrating the D-day intervent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 31, 2018
Sir Michael Morpurgo is supporting a large-scale public performance to honour the warrior at the spot where his body returned to British soilIn 1916, the Rev David Railton, a former curate i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 24, 2018
The actor spoke about the end of her marriage to James McAvoy on the BBC Radio 4 showAnne-Marie Duff has spoken of the emotional impact of the end of her decade-long marriage to the Scottish…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 3, 2018
New drama Mad As Hell explores how actor Peter Finch's real-life anger over snobbery and prejudice fuelled his Oscar-winning performance in the 1976 filmHis "mad as hell" outburst as America…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 27, 2018
Stage shows salute theatre genius of king of comic capers 10 years on from his death"Irrepressible" was the word often used to describe the Essex-born performer and writer Ken Campbell. And,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 16, 2017
The venue that entertained the razed camp's migrants will reopen in France " as its playwright founders find acclaim at the Young VicWhen the tent in Calais that housed the Good Chance Theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 25, 2017
Director of theatre near fire that killed 71 people picks play about gerrymandering in 1980s as debut productionA play about a notorious social housing scandal is to be staged in a new theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 18, 2017
Rare revival of the author's play Dear Brutus will drop adults into a Neverland-like worldNeverland, the magical place made famous by JM Barrie's Peter Pan, will be closer than you think thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Actors reproduce lost world of 'Indian noir' in former art deco department store, which will afterwards become part of the Dishoom restaurant chainAmid clouds of cigarette smoke and the pung…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 11, 2017
Audience to be given food during stage version of Nigel Slater's memoirToast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger, the bestselling food memoir by Observer writer Nigel Slater, is to be brought to th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 14, 2017
Nottingham Playhouse celebrates its 50th aniversary with a night of little-known worksLost short plays by Harold Pinter, John Mortimer and Shelagh Delaney are to be performed again for the f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42PM[SHARE]Memoir tells how legacy of tragic first wife haunted his workFor 60 years actor Henry Woolf was the intimate friend of Harold Pinter, the Nobel laureate widely judged the greatest theatrical…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 2, 2017
Playwright finds inspiration for his new play in the travails of the faction-riven partyJames Graham's 2012 hit play This House, set in parliament in the 1970s, raised a few pertinent quest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 26, 2017
Judges could not choose between shows by Hannah Gadsby and John Robins " so have given both the £10,000 first prizeFor the first time in the history of Edinburgh's festival fringe, the to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 6, 2017
A look back at the evolution of the event, now celebrating its 70th year, and how risk-taking has kept it ahead of the gameSacrifice in the name of art was more than just a noble sounding id…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 5, 2017
Spectacular light show in New Town square has shut down smaller events and venues, say criticsIt was meant to celebrate all that the summer festival season has come to mean to Edinburgh and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 29, 2017
Keith West and Mark Wirtz's haunting 60s hit is centrepiece of completed showGrocer Jack " properly known as Excerpt from a Teenage Opera " the strange novelty song that made the number one …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Rival arts organisations cry foul at award of £2m in Arts Council funding to her next theatrical venture, Wise ChildrenThe beleaguered stage director Emma Rice, who is to step down from r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 22, 2017
They were at the vanguard of political comedy. Now Alexei Sayle, Craig Ferguson and Sue Perkins are heading back to the festival, as it celebrates its 70th birthdayUnknown talents and studen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM[SHARE] 
