To mark World Theatre Day, leading playwrights, actors and directors share some of their favourite moments Palace theatre, Manchester. Some time in the mid-60s. A variety bill (or it may hav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMA new show from Cirencester’s Barn theatre finds Tweedy swapping the circus for an office job and assisting Kerry Mucklowe from This Country If you’ve spent a few days juggling homeschoo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMJason Manford will present programme of past highlights from the awards show, which has been postponed this year due to the coronavirus outbreak The Olivier awards, the most prestigious priz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMJudi Dench, Jade Anouka, Harriet Walter and Patrick Stewart are among the stars to perform the playwright’s words online during crisis caused by Covid-19 Coronavirus and culture – a lis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMBrian Cox is among stars appearing in digital productions commissioned by the UK’s swiftly adapting arts venues, written by playwrights in isolation The National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMLin-Manuel Miranda accepts Andrew Lloyd Webber’s self-isolation Twitter challenge, and throws down gauntlet Coronavirus and culture – a list of major cancellations Coronavirus – lates…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMAs performers across the world see gigs cancelled, the former Billy Elliot star will be facing the unknown with a shake and a shimmy He was cast as Billy Elliot at 12, toured the UK in hit m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMActor’s earnest re-creation of John Lennon classic draws satirical response from all-star lineup of comics fronted by Joe Lycett In times of crisis a celebrity viral video can unite us ei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMAs venues cancel performances in the wake of the coronavirus, they are asking arts lovers to donate and book advance tickets • Coronavirus and culture – a list of major cancellations• …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMFrom West Side Story to Company, he revolutionised the musical. As the supreme lyricist and composer turns 90, Jake Gyllenhaal, Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Nathan Lane and more pay tribute C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMAs the coronavirus causes venues to close their doors, an increase of live-streamed theatre is expected. Here are some of the shows online now or coming soon • Coronavirus and culture – …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMAs majority of UK’s theatres close, industry bodies say government’s lack of outright ban on visiting venues leaves them unable to claim on insurance • Coronavirus and culture – a l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMActors, writers, technicians and others in the industry facing hardship and ‘critical threat to livelihoods’ following shutdowns • Coronavirus and culture – a list of major cancellat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMAcclaimed director will take over from Jeremy Herrin at the UK touring company Joe Hill-Gibbins has been appointed as the artistic director of the touring theatre company Headlong. He will t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMDead Ringers impressionist takes lead role in stage version of bestselling book on British identity The impressionist Jon Culshaw is to play Bill Bryson in a new stage adaptation of Notes fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMProduction uses hits of Welsh singer Tom Jones to tell story of the character Tom Jones in Henry Fielding’s 1749 novel Delilah, Sex Bomb and other Tom Jones hits are to be brought together…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMAfter getting a chest infection, the actor has complained about backstage facilities for actors in older theatres The actor Britt Ekland has slammed the backstage conditions she encountered …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMTV co-stars compete for acting prizes at this year’s theatre awards, whose nominations are led by the musicals & Juliet, Fiddler on the Roof and Dear Evan Hansen Fleabag stars Phoebe W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMLA Dance Project In Benjamin Millepied’s piece I Fall, I Flow, I Melt, mostly performed to Bach, the dancers sparkle like sun on the ocean On the edge of the Los Angeles Arts District, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMPasadena Playhouse, Los AngelesThe actor brings out the dark humour in Zeller’s modern classic about a man with dementia, fluctuating from absurdity to despair in a heartbeat It is more t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMRoyal Ballet reveals adaptation of Atwood’s trilogy of dystopian novels Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam The British choreographer Wayne McGregor is to stage an adaptati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMUnicorn theatre, LondonIn Roland Schimmelpfennig’s play, three actors narrate a day in the life of a young person who uses imagination to escape a precarious existence For his first season…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32PMPrebble’s play A Very Expensive Poison won the prize, named after the Guardian’s former chief theatre critic, at the Critics’ Circle awards A Very Expensive Poison, Lucy Prebble’s am…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMTwo American shows that explore adolescent anxiety have been propelled by young online communities in a digital blizzard of streams, fan art and animatics Schoolboys hunch over laptops in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMIan Shaw plays his actor father in West End play about the troubled production of Spielberg’s first blockbuster When Robert Shaw was filming the blockbuster Jaws, the actor’s young son …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMGatiss to play ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge’s business partner, Jacob Marley, in his version of Charles Dickens novella He has long written Christmas ghost stories for television and now Mark…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMKeep track of the shows at the sprawling arts extravaganza beneath Waterloo Station in London. This page will be updated throughout the festival Until 1 FebruarySimon David’s autobiographi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMThe IT Crowd actor will star as the green-living Barbara in a stage adaptation of the popular 70s sitcom Katherine Parkinson is to star in a new stage version of the 1970s sitcom The Good Li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMCasting call goes out for film version of the Roald Dahl classic, led by Matthew Warchus, who staged RSC’s smash hit The announcement of a casting call for children aged nine to 11, “no …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMA Dog’s Tale, written by cat-loving playwright Poppy Hollman, tells the story of a British institution and has a canine/feline rap battle Tom Hooper’s extravagant blockbuster may have gi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMThere are more than 1,000 shots in George Romero’s classic horror movie. Can a band of actors, armed with video cameras and Barbie dolls, recreate it? A winding road. Two bickering sibling…
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