Monday, December 11, 2017
Three decades since its last major staging, George Bernard Shaw’s Misalliance is set to be produced at the Orange Tree Theatre. Al
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Two decades after Cell Mates unravelled following the disappearance of its lead, Simon Gray’s play is being revived at Hampstead Theatre. Al
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Built several years before the outbreak of the First World War, Portsmouth’s Kings Theatre is delving into its past and reviving a
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As a London revival of the seminal musical opens, Al Senter looks back at the lasting impact its explosion of youth and
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More than a generation has passed since London first witnessed Angels in America. These plays have now returned to the National Theatre,
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It could be ‘London bus syndrome’ or a sudden flowering of interest in France’s favourite playwright, but there is beaucoup de Moliere
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It is probably the most famous line in showbiz. The fearsome Julian Marsh, the abrasive Broadway director, towers over quivering chorine Peggy
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It was a task worthy of Hercules. How could Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II repeat the phenomenal success of Oklahoma! in
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We are probably on safe ground when asserting that Michael Blakemore, an active 88, is one of the oldest stage directors still
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It seems paradoxical that the better a character actor does the job, the less they are known and appreciated. A performer who,
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Among the many charismatic actors to have been hailed as the new Laurence Olivier down the years, Kenneth Branagh has perhaps been
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Home-grown musicals of the 1960s seem to have vanished into some kind of theatrical black hole. The period between Lionel Bart and
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With a new production of Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea running at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton, we are reminded of the
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The novelist Graham Greene was apt to call his lighter works “entertainments”. Although he did not formally include Travels With My Aunt
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The quality of Guys and Dolls, Frank Loesser’s masterpiece, was acknowledged almost as soon as it opened on Broadway at the 46th
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Rather in the manner of the closing scenes of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the Downton Abbey revels now are ended and the Earl
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Nobody is claiming that the struggle is over and the battle has been won, but one may be justified in saying that
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Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard is the ultimate home movie. The 1950 film hailed by Time magazine as “a story of Hollywood at
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Rita Davies, who has died after a short illness aged 82, enjoyed a golden autumn as a much in-demand presence on television
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Fortified by several hefty mugs of tea against a working day that threatens to extend far into the evening, Janet McTeer is
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Regarded by some critics as Harold Pinter’s masterpiece, The Homecoming is celebrating its 50th birthday with an anniversary production at the Trafalgar
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It is a striking aspect of the history of the theatre that it has tended to pass in and out of fallow
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Janet Whiteside was the company member par excellence and for many years a much-loved stalwart of the National Theatre and the Royal
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Character actor. It’s an expression that seems to damn with faint praise. You could argue that it has outlived its primary function
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By the nature of the job, actors have to learn to bond with each other at a much faster rate than in
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Barbara Atkinson had a flourishing West End career cut short by illness. But however incapacitated she became, she never complained and remained cheerful to the end. Born in Stretford, Manch…
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As John Heffernan prepares to don Edward II’s heavy crown in Marlowe’s masterpiece, he tells Al Senter he’s still ‘terrified’
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Al Senter considers the enduring power of the term 'luvvie', the possible identity of its originator and how it came to be so widely adopted
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Al Senter speaks to director Jamie Lloyd and designer Soutra Gilmour about Macbeth and their new season of work at Trafalgar Studios
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After shooting to fame 20 years ago for his role in Middlemarch Rufus Sewell talks to Al Senter about how his attitude towards his career has evolved
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Al Senter talks to Oliver Ford Davies about his new role in Goodnight Mister Tom which is about to open at the Phoenix Theatre
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