Daniel Fish’s restaging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic is no Kansas City cornbread caper. The director explains why he ratcheted up the racial tension and gun violence In the Oklah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMCharing Cross theatre, LondonThe whiff of hamminess is never absent from the Zorro story and here both script and performances are endearingly alive to a sense of the ridiculous Swipe right!…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMDorfman, LondonAlecky Blythe’s masterful play – which features a brilliantly charismatic cast – follows real youngsters across five years of their lives Ali, 14, wants to be a criminal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMJermyn Street theatre, LondonLikable leads who act with great verve are let down by a weak story that can’t hold the weight of its themes Given the scale of the environmental challenges fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PMPark theatre, LondonLydia White is magnetic as the aspirational Jo in an uneven but stirring adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic Jo March is a heroine well suited to musical theatre.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMPark theatre, LondonMike Leigh’s 1970s masterpiece of aggressive hospitality, embarrassing silences and gauche behaviour is back in a slightly more naturalistic portrayal Mike Leigh’s co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMHe has done politics in Bodyguard, horror in Utopia and comedy as Kevin in Motherland. Next up for Paul Ready is Shakespeare’s tragedy, alongside his wife, at the GlobePaul Ready is spooke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AMSome cover their feet in glue, others slice at them with razor blades ... Emma John discovers what performing night after night does to a dancer's feetIt should have been the best day of Jen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11PMTo 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 01:36PMTo 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 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Camille O’Sullivan plays Constance in King John, Act III, Scen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Joanna Lumley speaks Viola’s soliloquy from Twelfth Night, Act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Sacha Dhawan delivers an edited version of Parolles’s lines fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, David Threlfall speaks Prospero’s lines from The Tempest, Act …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Daniel Mays speaks Macbeth’s lines from Act II, Scene 1. As Ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Samuel West speaks Henry V’s soliloquy from Act IV, Scene 1. O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Joanna Vanderham speaks Juliet’s monologue from the balcony sc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Eileen Atkins speaks Emilia’s lines from Othello, act IV scene…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, David Morrissey speaks the opening lines from Richard III in whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Roger Allam plays King Lear in act III, scene 2 of the tragedy. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMAdrian Lester as Hamlet, David Morrissey as Richard III, Joanna Lumley as Viola, Daniel Mays as Macbeth … To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:14AMA new play at the National Theatre, Here We Go, takes an unflinching look at death. What would real-life carers think of it? We took a group to find out Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:09PMShe stole the show as a weightlifting Earl of Douglas in the all-female Henry IV. Now Cynthia Erivo is off to Broadway – and Jennifer Hudson is asking her for stage tipsCynthia Erivo would…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:21PMHe’s been a terrifying Miss Trunchbull, a convincing Nick Clegg, and now, in the BBC’s Sunday-night drama, he’s a magical Jonathan Strange. Emma John meets actor Bertie Carvel Continue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45AMThe actor and singer, 55, on adrenaline, matching music and cooking, and getting married in a swimsuit Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMFemale comedians are finally enjoying equal billing to their male counterparts – and they’re beating them to the awards Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThe 67-year-old actor talks about being an angry old man, sugar addiction and the bane of his life, his talented young namesakeYou think wisdom will come with age – it doesn't. Just confus…
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