Saturday, July 30, 2022
Comedian doesn’t directly address apology onstage but says: ‘Even me getting smacked by Suge Smith ... I went to work the next day’
Comedian Chris Rock did not directly address Will Sm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48PMWednesday, July 6, 2022
David Harewood, Sharon D Clarke and Josette Bushell-Mingo pay tribute to the pioneering star who has died aged 91
‘Remarkable, revelatory, inspiring’: Yvonne Brewster on Mona Hammond
It …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMMonday, June 6, 2022
After 27 years, the groundbreaking Saturday night at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in London ends next month. Performers past and present and famous fans reflect on how it changed them and the q…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMMonday, May 16, 2022
Whether you want to go far out or snoop at someone else’s home, our critics will keep you busy for the next seven days
Everything Everywhere All at OnceOut nowFirestarter notwithstanding, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMThursday, January 27, 2022
Cryer, known for I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and as writer for Bruce Forsyth and the Two Ronnies, called ‘the real deal’
The comedian, writer and actor Barry Cryer has died at the age…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMFriday, December 31, 2021
From Ian McKellen as Hamlet to elephants treading the boards, our photography maestro was in position to shoot theatre’s glorious return Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMTuesday, December 14, 2021
1 May 1937 – 12 August 2021The actor recalls his Sherlock co-star, a doyenne of British TV whose youthful, no-nonsense energy and humour were irresistible
Janet Malcolm remembered by her …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AM22 April 1963 – 16 August 2021The comedian recalls more than 30 years of friendship with a warm and generous writer and performer whose standup sets left audiences helpless with laughter
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMMonday, December 13, 2021
22 March 1930 – 26 November 2021The actor on the American composer and lyricist who changed musicals, and whose warmth and generous spirit were equally present in the theatre and at home
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMTuesday, June 15, 2021
Boris Johnson says government is in talks with composer, who is ‘surprised’ to hear of the proposed pilot
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMSunday, June 6, 2021
The award-winning Kneehigh theatre company has announced it is closing down. Revisit its past hits including Rapunzel, A Matter of Life and Death and The Tin Drum Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMSunday, March 14, 2021
Leading artistic directors including Ivo van Hove, Shanta Thake and Thomas Ostermeier reflect on their nations’ treatment of the arts during Covid. Introduction by Susannah Clapp
In the di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSunday, February 7, 2021
Actors, authors, musicians and Observer critics share tips for filling the after‑homeschool hours – from uplifting family films to creative apps, dance tutorials and sonic journals Conti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMThursday, January 14, 2021
The surviving member of duo Siegfried & Roy has died of cancer in Las Vegas after his magic partner died last year
German news agency dpa is reporting that illusionist Siegfried Fischbac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMTuesday, February 11, 2020
Colin Jones trained as a dancer before becoming a photographer. His pictures of Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev and Tamara Rojo are on display at the North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, until 7 M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMMonday, February 3, 2020
In what’s allegedly a record-breaking $75m deal, the Pulitzer prize-winning stage musical, with the original cast, will land at cinemas worldwide in 2021
The hit Pulitzer prize-winning mus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMFriday, December 20, 2019
Ken Dodd’s laugh riot, Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman, Lucy Prebble’s dazzling debut and ‘off-with-your kit Harington’ … revisit the hits and flops assessed by our outgoing theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMTuesday, November 12, 2019
How did a one-woman show at Edinburgh become a worldwide hit? As a book of the series is published, performers and writers ask her about inspiration, sex and guinea pigs Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMThursday, July 11, 2019
Maxine Peake and director Sarah Frankcom explore the life and art of German actor-singer Nico in a bold new production at Manchester international festival inspired by her 1968 album The Mar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMSunday, June 16, 2019
He threw flamboyant parties and created equally dazzling films and operas. A look back on the career of the director of the films Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew and the opera T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMFriday, May 10, 2019
The Globe theatre, London, kicks off its new season with Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts I and II and Henry V, performed back to back on 10 and 11 May. Photographer Tristram Kenton captured t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMMonday, May 6, 2019
As Wendell Pierce takes on the role of Willy Loman at the Young Vic in London, revisit the history of Arthur Miller’s classic play Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMThursday, February 14, 2019
A night in a cemetery, a trip to a strip club, five hours in A&E … comics relive their woeful romantic rendezvous Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSaturday, December 1, 2018
Comics discussed the president’s refusal to believe in climate change and Ivanka Trump’s use of a personal email accountLate-night hosts discussed the recent Paul Manafort revelations an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMMonday, June 11, 2018
The Band’s Visit picked up 10 awards at the celebration of American theatre, held on Sunday in New York• Band’s Visit and Harry Potter triumph in politically charged ceremony• The re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMSaturday, June 2, 2018
In this previously unseen footage from the Hicks family archive, filmed at the Laff Stop in Austin in 1991, Bill Hicks explains why children are smarter than adults. Twenty years on from the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PMMonday, May 14, 2018
Ophelia and Gertrude are the chief female characters in Hamlet but many actresses have taken on the lead role itself including Asta Nielsen and Frances de la Tour• At her Peake: Maxine’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
In The Deal, he made a gripping TV drama out of the Blair-Brown pact. Now, in his first play, Peter Morgan is taking on another clash of titans: Richard Nixon and David Frost. He talks to Ga…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48PMMonday, April 30, 2018
It was the year hippy idealism gave way to riot and struggle – with protests in Paris, tanks in Prague and black power in the US. Guardian writers pick the pivotal works from that tumultuo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
It’s a nice idea: promote the art of letter-writing by alluding to the Bard’s Romeo and Juliet. There’s only one snag in the plot, as many have been quick to point outName: Royal Mail.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PMLuhrmann's stage version of his film didn't get critics telling him to Foxtrot Oscar, but they didn't throw flowers at his feet eitherNot everyone likes Baz Luhrmann's high camp directorial …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM 
