Actor best known for her stage work and acclaimed for her portrayal of Mary Barnes in the title role of David Edgar’s 1978 play Patti Love, who has died aged 75, was an actor of supreme ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:56AMSo, I thought I’d done my time. Over six consecutive years I participated in 15 Edinburgh Fringe shows, as actor, director and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AMThe playwright introduces his new version of A Christmas Carol for the RSCSince mid-August, I’ve been doing something I swore I’d never do again. I’ve been rehearsing a new adaptation …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:12AMPlaywright and director who scored an international hit with The Knack and pushed the boundaries of community theatreThere were two distinct, equally significant, phases to the career of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMAlong with Konstantin Stanislavski, Vsevelod Meyerhold was the leading theatrical innovator of the early 20th century, certainly in Russia and arguably the world. A victim of Stalin’s purg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMVersatile British actor known for his stage roles in Shakespeare and the RSC’s Nicholas Nickleby who found fame on US TV in Cheers and The West WingRoger Rees, who has died aged 71 after s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMCensorship battles once focused on books, but today the performing arts are under attack, especially works that mix drama and documentary. David Edgar argues that free speech must be preserv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:28PMThe playwright, who has died aged 83, became a definitive voice of disenchanted mid-century youth – but British theatre wasted his later work Related: Arnold Wesker: the radical bard of wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:22PMLydia Adetunji, Jack Thorne, Bola Agbaje, Alia Bano, Adam Brace, Lucy Kirkwood… a new generation of political playwrights is adding to Britain's rich tradition, writes veteran dramatist Da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48PMVersatile British actor known for his stage roles in Shakespeare and the RSC’s Nicholas Nickleby who found fame in the US in Cheers and The West WingRoger Rees, who has died aged 71 after …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:29AMThe death of the British dramatist is greatly exaggerated. A surge of new plays has revitalised our mastery of the art of showing society to itself Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:14PMMy play's dystopian predictions for a lurch to the right by panicked Tories were overtaken by real events. I fear for 2014This time last year I was planning act two of If Only, a play about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:01PMBirmingham Repertory theatre's centenary is well worth celebrating – and not just because my parents met on its stage-door stepsIn a sense, I owe Birmingham Rep everything: my parents met …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMI didn't join in opposing the invitation to Israel's Habima Theatre, but I agree with the protesters' right to do soThe letter from Mike Leigh, Mark Rylance, Emma Thompson, Jonathan Miller a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PMAn insider's view of the writer as actorIt's both the best and worst of times to produce a Dickens biography. Best because (for anyone just returned from the further reaches of the gala…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55PMPublicly funded arts institutions are under more pressure than ever to quantify the social benefits they bring, as would be done for schools and hospitals. But isn't the crucial role of art …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMThe anti-cuts case can't be just the elitism of the arts' intrinsic value, nor their social utility, but bothThree years ago at the Young Vic theatre 500 arts people dragged the then Arts Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMCensorship battles once focused on books, but today the performing arts are under attack, especially works that mix drama and documentary. David Edgar argues that free speech must be preserv…
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