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 03:54AMThe stars of stage and screen chat about playing witches, seeing ghosts and stepping into another legend’s shoes They have enjoyed huge success on TV with The Undoing and Killing Eve, resp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMThe theatre legends look back at working with Laurence Olivier and Peter O’Toole, the pain of biting reviews, the joy of a good run – and the agonies of being miscast Derek Jacobi and Si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMOur series on films about theatre continues with a British comedy in which variety acts face an existential threat when TV steals their audience Theatres around the country are shutting thei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMThey have been friends for 50 years. With theatres closed, they reflect on the joy – and hidden drama – of a life in acting Theatres around the UK have been kept dark by Covid, and it co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMOur series on films about theatre continues with a boozy, darkly funny comedy that captures the event’s pick’n’mix quality No matter how much you miss theatre, you still wouldn’t wan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMOur series on films about the stage continues with the 1980 classic about a playhouse in occupied Paris, starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu The directors of the French New Wave…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMBeth Steel, Frances Poet, Dawn King and Janice Okoh nominated despite many plays being postponed or cut short due to coronavirus Plays about the interrogation of Saddam Hussein, crimes again…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03PMThe actor is in ‘doggy and musical heaven’ – hosting a primetime grooming show on TV and returning to the stage for a showtune extravaganza. So who’s got the best topknot: her or the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMContinuing our series on the best films about theatre, a 200-year-old Japanese ghost story takes centre stage in a movie merging reality and fantasy The prolific Japanese director Takashi Mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMGena Rowlands plays an actor frustrated with her character in a backstage drama that kicks off our series on the ways cinema depicts theatre One of many tantalising theatre shows cancelled l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMCottle toured the UK and internationally for decades, promoting a variety of acts, before developing attractions at the limestone caves in Somerset The circus showman Gerry Cottle has died o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMThe choreographer and influential teacher was a pioneer of contemporary dance in the UK Tributes have been paid to the choreographer Sir Robert Cohan, a pioneer of contemporary dance in Brit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMHe tried dance to cope with grief – and found himself in a class with ‘25 mostly retired ladies’. It all fed into his new play, about his mother, his childhood and his obsession with J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMAvailable online Polly Lister plays umpteen parts in this spirited Hans Christian Andersen adaptation filmed at Stephen Joseph theatre A couple of Christmases ago, in Theresa Heskins’ prod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMAvailable onlineA special delivery from The Big Tiny uses a week’s worth of puzzles, tricks and activities to tell the story of witches, wizards and a postman They’ve done it again. Last…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMPerspex screens, CGI scenery and Covid tests before kissing … Sam Tutty and Emily Redpath reveal how they filmed a new Romeo and Juliet As the isolated teen in Dear Evan Hansen, Sam Tutty…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03AMAvailable onlineAndrew Lloyd Webber’s version of the 1950 film is smartly staged by Leicester’s Curve, starring Ria Jones and Danny Mac When screenwriter Joe Gillis swerves into the dri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AMTheir inventive family shows have covered the climate crisis, the brain and, now, the Covid-19 pandemic. The mischievous trio discuss their story so far When they began staging shows for chi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMChoreographer and Fosse collaborator starred as Roxie in Chicago and appeared on screen in Annie Ann Reinking, the Broadway star whose elegant style, mesmerising physicality and piercing gaz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMAvailable onlineAn irrepressible Iain Lauchlan leads a trip to Prickly Bottom, where songs, toilet humour and Joe Wicks gags abound A good panto is for life, not just for Christmas. It’s t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMUntil theatre lovers can experience that alchemy on stage again, this initiative is one way to brighten up the month for those who can’t visit a venue Never mind The Nutcracker – the mos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMFrom winning an Oscar to starring opposite Rock Hudson – and coming out at 82, the theatre legend has done it all. But he came close to giving up acting to work on a hotdog stand “Shame …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMAndrew Lincoln is Ebenezer Scrooge and Mother Christmas steps into the spotlight ... there are plenty of festive treats to watch from your front room this winter The Legend of Moby Dick Whit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMIn an event for the theatrical charity Acting for Others, Dench, Smith, McKellen and Jacobi spoke about their highs and lows, superstitions and acting tips They are, according to their pal K…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMThis season, pantomimes are shifting from the theatre to drive-ins and online. Two shows will still make a song and dance about it Iain Lauchlan has been putting on panto in Coventry for alm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMAvailable onlineThis lonely hearts revue with songs cut from Follies and other musicals is a carousel of regrets and rapture Breaking up is hard to do – not just in relationships. When a s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMDwan will play Winnie in a 60th-anniversary revival of the play at Riverside Studios in London It is, perhaps, the perfect play for lockdown, as the heroine fills the hours between “the be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32AMAvailable onlineThe Little Angel theatre’s inspirational show uses dance, rap and puppets to tell real and fictional tales about trailblazing female astronauts Before she became the first …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMAvailable onlineJeff Bowen and Hunter Bell’s characters deconstruct their own lines in a witty four-hander staged cleverly for streaming From Singin’ in the Rain to A Chorus Line, there …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMAvailable onlineBuild yourself a cosy den and make your own props for an imaginative, stereotype-busting home theatre experience that can’t be confined Taking children to the theatre alway…
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