His bold take on Shakespeare’s tragedy features kabuki witches, Buddhist chants and a cello-playing Lady Macbeth. As it returns, Yukio Ninagawa’s collaborators remember how he enthralled…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMThe legendary stage producer talks to Andrew Dickson about marriage, Shakespeare and bloody-minded determination"My life and times?" says Thelma Holt. "I love talking, but" – her voic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMHe was living with his mum and working as a dish-washer. But he threw all he had into a brutal play that became a Scottish classic. The dramatist talks about the return of Knives in Hens –…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMComedian and Beyoncé impersonator Russell Kane was in at 3pm today to answer your questions. What did he have to say?There are few male comics of whom you could say that it's a close call w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PMThe NT’s former artistic director digs up absorbing material, and argues that high-minded can also be showbiz goldImpressive though his time running the National Theatre was, in one respec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31AMPunchdrunk are staging their biggest show yet – a descent into the Hollywood dream factory – in a vast west London building. But have the interactive mavericks reached theatre's outer&nb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMBritish Library releases ‘Baines note’ in which playwright Christopher Marlowe scandalously suggests Christian communion should be smoked in a pipeA controversial document in which the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMHow a play is lit changes not only how it looks but how we feel about it. Top designers Paule Constable and Mark Henderson discuss mysteries of the craftIn the darkness of the Lyric theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMBenedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley have starred in his bleakly funny, sometimes dowright horrible plays. As The Treatment is revived at the Almeida, Martin Crimp talks about how his wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMThe City of Culture is hitting the waves for Flood, its wildly ambitious flagship show – and even the boat gets a stunt doubleIn a quiet corner of Whitby harbour, Alan Lane, artistic direc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMIt’s been licked, kissed and caressed. It’s been played by a beige sweater and the real remains of a Hamlet-loving horse thief. As Andrew Scott gets ready to be or not to be, we explore …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMAs Daniel Radcliffe appears in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Tom Stoppard remembers the dandy who wrote it 50 years ago, picks his favourite play – and reveals why he’s less interested i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31AMCould Richard III handle Hamlet in a punch-up? Is Benedick more fanciable than Beatrice? Is Falstaff craftier than Cleopatra? Celebrate Shakespeare’s 450th birthday by pitting his characte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMBanks and oil giants should keep out of temples of culture, shouldn’t they? Andrew Dickson thought so – until he made a documentary about sponsorship and the increasingly desperate searc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMThe firebrand writer is an outspoken critic of the establishment but his new work is an RSC commission about Caravaggio. He talks about challenging audiences’ prejudices – and his ownSay…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMIf Shakespeare, not Marlowe, had been fatally stabbed as a young man would we even remember him? As the 450th birthdays of both playwrights approach, Andrew Dickson makes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10AMHis hallucinogenic new show takes the audience up the Amazon and to the centre of their own consciousnesses – the latest work from an auteur who has constantly redefined theatreBroadway ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07PMStepping in to play Romeo for Kenneth Branagh at a couple of days’ notice, followed by the razzamatazz of Tristan Tzara? Fox says it’s like ice skatingIt sounds like an actor’s fantasy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMIt began as a Broadway afterparty for guests including Monica Lewinsky. Now, the Good Wife star is taking his confessional one-man show to Edinburgh, with a sappy songbook that runs from Liz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:40AMTheatre Royal PlymouthJames Graham’s gimlet-eyed play gives both sides of 70s anarchism and shows there’s still plenty to get angry aboutUnemployment is sky-high and a Tory government is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:27PMAfter early success writing for the National Theatre and for Alan Partridge, Marber’s career stalled. As he returns with two plays, he talks about how Lewes FC, Turgenev and an escape from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMFirst staged a year after she killed herself, 4.48 Psychosis was called Kane’s suicide note. As a new opera version opens, the team behind the play’s Royal Court premiere look back – a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSpymonkey are sticking the knife into Shakespeare, by putting every poisoning, bear attack and stabbing on stageA woman lies on a tomb in a deathlike slumber, rose petals scattered all aroun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:21PMHis name may not appear in the credits, but the playwright has inspired some unlikely renditions of his great worksIn this 1940 episode of Dave and Max Fleischer’s classic cartoon, the pip…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:13AMWhether his plays were performed on a whaling ship, up a redwood tree or by a burlesque dancer, the pioneers had a particular fondness for the BardIn May 1831, the French political thinker A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:39PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonJean Anouilh’s wartime tale of mistaken identity is given a witty, colourful update with top-rank comic actingMistaken identity makes for absorbing dramatic materia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMHe unleashed a fierce 1984 and brought Aeschylus bang up to date. Now the Almeida’s wunderkind is stripping back a Russian classic with actor Paul RhysSay what you like about his productio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AMTheatre Royal, Plymouth James Graham rifles through period-comedy vignettes in this chaotic retelling of the life of the rocker turned serial parliamentary hopefulJames Graham deserves an ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AMFrom his birth in Stratford-upon-Avon to family tragedy, friendship with the monarch and success at the Globe, explore the twists and turns in Shakespeare’s own storyOn 26 April, Stratford…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44AMShe’s not just his fixer, assistant, co-writer and collaborator. She even picks the costumes and carpets. As Peter Brook revisits his epic Mahabharata, Marie-Hélène Estienne looks back o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:19PMAs he arrives at London's Barbican to play an operatic serial killer, John Malkovich talks to Andrew Dickson about being back on stage, doing the Edinburgh festival for the first time – an…
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