Wednesday, April 30, 2014
In a frank interview, the former head of the Almeida speaks out against a Belarusian regime that raids plays in performance, imprisons directors and threatens the future of free expressionOn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 8, 2014
Directors hail victory for campaign to keep world-class talent in UK as London centre leads renaissance in big top skillsThere may not be a lengthy drum roll to draw people's attention, but …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM[SHARE]Theatre director Michael Grandage worries that only the rich will be able to go to drama school
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Exclusive: Grand dames of ballet criticise contemporary performances and say dancers have to be underweightTwo grand dames of classical ballet have ridiculed repeated claims that today's dan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 2, 2013
From Judi Dench to Benedict Cumberbatch, some of the greatest names in British theatre reprise classic performances on London's South BankOne of the greatest crucibles of modern drama, the N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 12, 2013
Computer analysis gives the Bard a hand in three late 16th century dramas, says scholar Jonathan BateThe hand of William Shakespeare has been identified in scenes or passages in three Elizab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 14, 2013
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in first feature as theatre adapts acclaimed shows into movies " following bold experiment in short filmsIt is small in size, but big on innovation. The Young Vic made…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 29, 2013
Director's sharp criticism of Hollywood stars emerges following publication of previously unpublished recordingsHe is one of cinema's giants, but Orson Welles looked down on many of his fell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 22, 2013
Rada boss and Imogen Stubbs say language is being mangled in bid to imitate American film stars " and audiences are being let downToo many actors mumble their way through their lines, neithe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AM[SHARE]Rada boss and Imogen Stubbs say language is being mangled in bid to imitate American film stars and audiences are being let down Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 30, 2013
As the academic debate gets personal, new book aims to prove William Shakespeare was the author of his own playsA group of 22 of the world's leading Shakespeare scholars have come together t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 16, 2013
New biography reveals US playwright's unflattering views of contemporaries, by drawing on unpublished workHis fellow playwrights are likened to "vampires" who leave "the stench smell of a ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 18, 2012
Actress tries to bury claim that Shakespeare had to have been an aristocrat to write his plays It is a clash involving three of the titans of Shakespearean acting, in a theatrical year domi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 21, 2012
Rupert Goold, who directed the play Enron, says his new trailer can exploit the reach of social mediaOne of British theatre's foremost directors is pioneering the use of Facebook to reach ou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 31, 2012
Theatres Protection Fund to receive £125,000 from Andrew Lloyd Webber, with call for other successful writers and producers to give something backAndrew Lloyd Webber is calling on success…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 26, 2011
Wilde's grave in Paris has been restored after decades of unusual lipstick tributes"A kiss may ruin a human life," Oscar Wilde once wrote. It can also ruin the stonework of a tomb, judging b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Merlin Holland claims his grandfather 'never wrote a word' of play heralded by north London company as 'genuine' WildeThe grandson of Oscar Wilde is accusing an Olivier award-winning theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 27, 2011
Days after the death of the master songwriter, plans revealed for musical about Irish writerAs the rock world mourned lyricist Jerry Leiber last week, it fondly remembered classic hits such …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 20, 2011
Work compiling the colourful playwright's complete works is due for publication this yearA mammoth publication of the complete works of Ben Jonson, the English dramatist regarded by many as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 14, 2011
Project in Scotland aims to help young people in former shipbuilding stronghold beset by 24% unemploymentComposer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's charitable foundation is to fund a new theatre for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 21, 2011
Composer and theatrical producer behind Cats and Evita to pay for 30 young actors, singer and dancers to studyIn an attempt to raise standards in West End musicals, Andrew Lloyd Webber has p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 3, 2011
British Library will display unpublished letters, which show that the dramatist worked on his last play while nearing deathThe British Library has acquired four unpublished letters written b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PM[SHARE]Monday, January 31, 2011
Play inspired by autobiography of man whose mother was Peter Sutcliffe's first known victimA playwright who owns the New End theatre in Hampstead, north London, is premiering a play in Leeds…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 4, 2010
UK play's author will write screenplay but West End director and cast are dropped as Hollywood snaps up stage successEnron, the stage play that has enraptured the West End with its depiction…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM[SHARE] 
