Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Actors roam Madrid, springing provocative performances on passersby, in Achero Mañas’s vibrant faux-documentary
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Can theatre change the world?…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32AMTuesday, April 20, 2021
The Italian auteur’s debut feature spoofs experimental theatre with its tale of a group of friends launching a heavy-handed Beckettian show
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMThursday, April 15, 2021
Alice Nutter, Simon Armitage and Maxine Peake will contribute to season offering a ‘northern perspective’ on how life has changed since the 1970s
A series of new plays about Yorkshire li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMTuesday, April 13, 2021
Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, standout song and dance numbers, a clever fusion of stage and cinema … that’s entertainment!
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Vincente Minnell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMFriday, April 9, 2021
Star-studded new run of acclaimed two-hander will use four pairs of actors, with Zoë Wanamaker and Chris O’Dowd also signed up
Nick Payne’s two-hander play Constellations is to be given…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMThursday, April 8, 2021
Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel will also be staged along with two children’s plays as industry begins to reopen
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre in London has confirmed the lineu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThe socially distanced 400-seat venue will stage Alice in Wonderland with contemporary Manchester songs
A new outdoor theatre in Manchester is to present productions of A Midsummer Night’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMTuesday, April 6, 2021
The mock classical actor created by Nigel Planer and Christopher Douglas scaled the heights at the RSC and the ‘Nash’. Now, he’s ready for a comeback
If you’ve ever marvelled at an a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMJane Birkin and Geraldine Chaplin star in the French director’s enthralling and perplexing drama about rehearsals for a one-off performance
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMTuesday, March 30, 2021
The Kendal family of actors star in a story inspired by their travels around India, whose booming film industry upstages their theatrical troupe
The stage on screen: more films about theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMFriday, March 26, 2021
Spall will replace Rhys Ifans as Atticus Finch in production opening at the Gielgud theatre in March 2022
Rafe Spall is to play Atticus Finch in the West End premiere of To Kill a Mockingbir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, March 25, 2021
Reconfigured Olivier theatre will show Dylan Thomas classic in June reopening with Jack Thorne play set for Dorfman stage
The National Theatre in London is set to reopen in June with a new v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMTuesday, March 23, 2021
The actors talk about applause, auditions, how they fell in love with the theatre – and the extraordinary high of delivering the perfect line
David Oyelowo and Alfred Molina have been frie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMIn this stylish Japanese classic, a performer uses theatrical techniques to engineer the deaths of his enemies
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
We sometimes talk of scene-steale…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMFriday, March 19, 2021
Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers have provided inspiration across stage and screen, via slang-singing gangs and warring garden ornaments
Modern Toss on Shakespeare’s classic romance
S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMShakespeare tragedy will be followed by The Cherry Orchard with a cast including Steven Berkoff and Jenny Seagrove
Sir Ian McKellen’s return to the role of Hamlet, 50 years after he first …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMWednesday, March 17, 2021
A solo theatre adaptation, co-produced by Theatre Royal Bath and the Royal & Derngate, will tour the UK this summer
Ralph Fiennes is to direct and star in a solo theatre adaptation of TS…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMShote appeared on the West End, television and stages across the UK, and was artistic director of Orísun Productions, focusing on talent from the African diaspora
Tributes have been paid to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMThe Oscar-winning star portrayed rival gang leaders in the stage and screen versions of the classic musical. He remembers dancing with Marilyn Monroe, playing Dracula and his role as a tromb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:11AMTuesday, March 16, 2021
The stars of Netflix’s Bridgerton and Hollywood talk about singing in the shower, the alchemy of the theatre – and why no one in Stephen Sondheim’s Company would ask LuPone to dance
Pa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMA long-lost London playhouse and Rada’s headquarters feature in this 1950 caper starring a showstopping Marlene Dietrich
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Abraham Lincoln’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMSunday, March 14, 2021
As the actor appears in a new production of Oscar Wilde’s story, she talks about modelling, her anxieties for young people and the ‘Pandora’s box’ of social media
You’re starring …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMFriday, March 12, 2021
Gemma Arterton and Emma Corrin will be among cast in set of dramas confronting urgent issues
Producer Sonia Friedman and director Ian Rickson are to present a spring season of plays in the W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMTuesday, March 9, 2021
The actors and old friends talk about how theatre beats TV, the terror of standup – and the joys of making Yoko Ono crack up
John Simm’s dad encouraged him towards a career on stage; Tra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMIn this winning romcom, comedian Jessica Williams has a sparky energy that evokes theatre at its most immediate
“I would literally rather have my period non-stop for a thousand years than …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMFriday, March 5, 2021
The pair will contribute original music for adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger bestseller expected on stage by early next year
With UK venues closed because of the pandemic, theatregoers woul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, March 4, 2021
Available onlineIntergenerational racism is explored in James Anthony Tyler’s gripping play, as a son and his father try to find a way to live together
An ageing father has just moved into…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMThe musician’s voice will be heard in the new online show, which combines virtual reality and live performance
A groundbreaking interactive Shakespeare production that features motion-cap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMTuesday, March 2, 2021
The actors have been friends since they starred together at the National. They talk about their showbiz debuts, the dangers of getting wrapped up in roles – and the thrills to come when th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMKatharina Wyss’s film features a phenomenal debut from Leone Balthasar as an adolescent who uses theatre to both escape – and express – her demons
Sarah Plays a Werewolf is a film abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMTuesday, February 23, 2021
Ingmar Bergman’s movie unpacks, like no other, the intimate emotional processes of staging and seeing a play
In the opening scene of Fanny and Alexander, a boy is alone in an empty house, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM 
