Monday, February 1, 2021
Beth 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 11:03PMTuesday, January 26, 2021
The 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 02:48AMTuesday, January 19, 2021
Gena 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 01:48AMThursday, January 14, 2021
Cottle 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 01:32PMWednesday, January 13, 2021
The 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 02:12AMWednesday, January 6, 2021
Available 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 07:24AMTuesday, January 5, 2021
Available 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 03:03AMMonday, January 4, 2021
Available 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 12:24AMTuesday, December 15, 2020
Their 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 04:54AMFriday, December 4, 2020
Available 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 01:48PMWednesday, December 2, 2020
Until 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 11:32AMMonday, November 30, 2020
Andrew 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 05:42AMThursday, November 19, 2020
This 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 06:42AMWednesday, November 18, 2020
Dwan 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 02:32AMMonday, November 16, 2020
Available 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 11:54AMThursday, November 12, 2020
Available 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 02:54PMWednesday, November 11, 2020
Available 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMTuesday, November 10, 2020
New shows from Manchester’s Hope Mill, London’s National Theatre and the Red Ladder touring company have all been cut short by Covid as venues close their doors once more
Two of this aut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThursday, November 5, 2020
Producer appeals to government to give venues advance notice about reopening following lockdown
Leading theatre producer Nica Burns has praised chancellor Rishi Sunak’s extension of the fu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMThursday, October 8, 2020
As he returns in a new film version of Uncle Vanya, the star remembers when Covid shuttered the West End and reflects on the arts crisis
You were playing the doctor, Astrov, in Ian Rickson�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMTuesday, October 6, 2020
RSC aims to open its biggest Stratford theatre in December, but two other venues will remain closed until 2022
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to keep two of its theatres in Stratford-upon-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMMonday, October 5, 2020
Terera has withdrawn from Death of England: Delroy at the Olivier theatre due to emergency surgery
Giles Terera has withdrawn from the upcoming National Theatre production Death of England: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMThursday, October 1, 2020
As plays return to the stage here are some of the best – from Rent in Manchester to James Graham’s Bubble in Nottingham
Roy Williams and Clint Dyer’s Death of England was a turbocharge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMWednesday, September 30, 2020
The actor and author on starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, her Ballet Shoes sequel and the government response to theatre’s crisis
More than six months have passed since the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM 
