Sunday, January 8, 2017
Katherine Soper awarded £16,000 and residency at Royal Exchange for ‘first proper play’ about mental health and changes to the benefits systemThe UK’s biggest playwriting competition …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMFriday, December 30, 2016
Joanna Lumley plays Viola, David Threlfall is Prospero and Daniel Mays sees a dagger before him in our latest set of videos to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s deathSix more …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48PMSaturday, December 10, 2016
Critically panned but hugely popular jukebox musical to close doors after 4,600 performances at Dominion theatreTwelve years after it opened, the Queen and Ben Elton musical We Will Rock You…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PMFriday, December 2, 2016
The great Shakespearean answered your questions on his extraordinary careerSimon Russell Beale joined us to talk about tackling King Lear – a mountain of a role, as Peter Brook once called…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMSaturday, October 22, 2016
Choreographer behind Pan's People, the dance troupe loved by Top of the Pops fansWhen 15 million viewers tuned into Top of the Pops each week during the show's 1970s heyday, the appeal exten…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:09PMFriday, October 21, 2016
Rice will follow Mark Rylance and Dominic Dromgoole in top job at the theatre when she takes over in April 2016The job description demanded “visionary and charismatic leadership”, the ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55PMFriday, October 14, 2016
Homeland and Wolf Hall star will appear in The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? at Theatre Royal Haymarket in spring 2017Damian Lewis is to star in the second West End revival of an Edward Albee play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMFriday, October 7, 2016
The filthy comedy – a hit for the BBC this summer – will be staged at the venue where it first started out as a monologueFleabag, this year’s breakout TV anti-heroine, is returning to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:46AMWednesday, September 28, 2016
Little Angel theatre, London A companion piece to the puppet theatre’s autumn show Emily Rising delivers some escapist fun for the under-sixes Shakera Ahad is one of the busiest puppeteers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AMSaturday, September 24, 2016
Hull Truck's A Taste of Honey, starring Shameless's Rebecca Ryan, is the second major revival this year of Shelagh Delaney's hugely influential debut. As Morrissey once observed, "At least 5…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
Once in a Lifetime leads Young Vic season that includes a ‘grownup’ Midsummer Night’s Dream and a new show devised by sex workersHarry Enfield is to make his theatrical debut in a revi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44PMSaturday, September 10, 2016
Actor will return to the UK in order to stage Zach Helm’s play Good Canary at Kingston’s Rose theatreThe American actor John Malkovich is heading to the UK – not to the West End stage,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMThursday, September 8, 2016
Duncan Macmillan and 59 Productions’ adaptation of Auster’s innovative detective novel will have its world premiere in ManchesterCity of Glass, Paul Auster’s meta-detective novel about…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:28AMWednesday, September 7, 2016
King’s Cross theatre, LondonThe CBeebies favourite has been cast as Mr Perks in this imaginative adaptation of E Nesbit’s classic – but the real star of the show pulls in later“Dad?�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:58AMMonday, August 22, 2016
Former nominees James Acaster and Sam Simmons, and last year’s best newcomer, John Kearns, are on the seven-strong shortlist for the main prize at the Edinburgh comedy awardsEdinburgh come…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMMonday, August 1, 2016
Shappi Khorsandi felt as if she’d walked on the moon. Isy Suttie watched a man change a dressing on a wound as she spoke. Omid Djalili fell off the stage. So how did the first gigs of Paul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:55AMTuesday, July 12, 2016
As he prepares to take his latest spectacular to the Edinburgh festival, the performer talks about the ‘magic box’ of theatre, listening to frogs’ secrets and playing an acrobatic Arie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:29AMFriday, July 8, 2016
Seats in a private box are promised to the first theatregoers who turn up in fishing gear – or as fish – at the Oscar-winning actor’s latest West End showMark Rylance will return to Lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:40AMTuesday, May 24, 2016
Exclusive: Actor will portray Blanche DuBois in Sarah Frankcom production of Tennessee Williams playThe role was originated by Jessica Tandy, played on stage and screen by Vivien Leigh and h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:20AMWednesday, May 11, 2016
Lewis plays Antony and Ashton performs ‘All the world’s a stage’ for our video series, which features Riz Ahmed, Laura Carmichael and Paterson JosephThe final set of films in the Guard…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jaques’s lines on the seven ages of man fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMHere are 10 striking stage directions – can you identify the plays they're taken from?“Thunder and lightning. Enter Devils with covered dishes.”The CrucibleWickedDoctor Faustus“Miria…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMTuesday, May 3, 2016
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Paterson Joseph speaks Shylock’s lines from The Merchant of Ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:11AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jacques’s lines on the seven ages of man fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Damian Lewis performs Antony’s lines from act III, scene 2 of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Laura Carmichael speaks Portia’s lines from The Merchant of Ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund’s soliloquy from the start of Act I, S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMLewis plays Antony and Ashton performs ‘All the world’s a stage’ for our video series, which features Riz Ahmed, Laura Carmichael and Paterson JosephThe final set of films in the Guard…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AMThursday, March 24, 2016
London’s powerhouse of new writing is celebrating its 60th birthday. Explore some of the Sloane Square theatre’s key productions through extracts from the Guardian and Observer archive, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMFriday, March 11, 2016
The X-Men stars will take their revival of the Harold Pinter classic to Sheffield, Newcastle, Brighton and Cardiff before a London run with some £10 ticketsSeven years after they waited for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMThursday, March 3, 2016
In the show Golden Hours, featuring tracks from Eno’s Another Green World and choreography by De Keersmaeker, the playwright’s lines are danced rather than spoken. The duo talk about str…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:45AM 
