Wednesday, January 28, 2015
As his long awaited new play opens at the National Theatre, turn Inspector Hound and sniff out the answers to these 10 questions about the great playwright Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2015
It's a role beloved by female dancers: Tatiana, in John Cranko's 1965 ballet version of Pushkin's prose-poem, moves from shy schoolgirl to emotionally mature beauty, and the Royal Ballet's p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:34AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 24, 2015
Send in the Clowns or Being Alive? Broadway Baby or Children Will Listen? Imelda Staunton, Janie Dee, Jason Donovan, Andy Nyman and Adrian Lester choose the best of the great composer and ly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 23, 2015
Roseanne star and Coen Brothers regular joins David Mamet production in London alongside Lewis and Tom Sturridge Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]It's official: The Elephant Man, starring an "almost unrecognisable" Bradley Cooper, is coming to London following its sell-out run on Broadway. Be the first to hear when tickets are release…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AM[SHARE]She's the self-scrutinising but socially conscious comedian, about to take her new show Cara Josephine across the UK " and she's joining us at 1pm on Monday 26 January to answer your questio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM[SHARE]Star will appear as Oscar Wilde's grande dame in The Importance of Being Earnest in London this summerWhatever would Hastings say? Here's the first photo of Poirot star David Suchet as Lady …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AM[SHARE]In her exhibition This Comedian, Idil Sukan captures comics in contemplative poses " plus there's Phil Nichol snogging a lion. Katherine Ryan, Bridget Christie, Stewart Lee and Steve Coogan …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 22, 2015
Pink elephants and water-worlds are among the groundbreaking creations of contemporary designers featured in a new book. Take a look at eight of their incredible creations " click on each ph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 21, 2015
The play, an award-winning monologue about a pilot who is reassigned to operate drones when she becomes pregnant, will be directed by Julie Taymor Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PM[SHARE]Kate Champion, artistic director of Force Majeure, and Kelli Jean Drinkwater, associate artist and fat activist, talk about the company's new show featuring big-bodied performers. Nothing to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:44PM[SHARE]Following the news that Brian Blessed collapsed on stage yet still managed to finish playing King Lear, we celebrate the star's heroic career. He's been in everything from Shakespeare to shl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:39AM[SHARE]Wolf Hall star speaks of how Shakespeare's play taught him 'to accept that everything rather sadly comes to an end' after the sudden death of his stepdaughter, the film-maker Nataasha van Ka…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AM[SHARE]Monday, January 19, 2015
Friday, January 16, 2015
Star of Frozen, whose Let it Go was one of the most ubiquitous sounds of 2014, to perform the Star Spangled Banner before the game on 1 February Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Comedian Al Murray, aka The Pub Landlord, announces he will run against Ukip's Nigel Farage in next year's general election. 'The UK is ready for a bloke waving a pint around, offering commo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Frances Barber explains what the Bard and the American Buffalo playwright have in common " and the difference between showing your personality within a character and simply showing off.This …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 12, 2015
From the archive: In this piece first published on 28 January 1995, the playwright Edward Bond defends the widely pilloried play Blasted and says its author's apocalyptic vision of the viole…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AM[SHARE]The role was hard to stomach, there were queues around the block and the critical reaction was beyond extreme … Twenty years after its first performance at the Royal Court, Kate Ashfield r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AM[SHARE]Sarah Kane's debut play, Blasted, was first put on 20 years ago today. In this archive piece, written during the Edinburgh festival in 1998, she considers performance on the stage and the pi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 10, 2015
The Wolf Hall director on Kazuo Ishiguro's comeback, the enduring appeal of Bob Dylan and why he found the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse well met by candelight Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM[SHARE]Musical starring the Frozen singer will close at the Richard Rodgers theatre in New York in March 2015, a year after it openedJennifer Hudson to star in The Color Purple on BroadwayIdina Men…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PM[SHARE]Friday, January 9, 2015
The Quebec-based company are in London with a show presenting a high-wire act, contortion, unicycles and a bad dog. All photographs by Tristram Kenton Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2015
Alina Cojocaru dances the roles of Odette and Odile opposite Ivan Vasiliev as Prince Siegfried in ENB's production at the Coliseum in London. All photographs: Tristram Kenton for the Guardia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 7, 2015
The actor, who is enjoying a career renaissance, will be bidding Wilkommen to Broadway and playing Sally Bowles for the final six weeks of the hit show's run Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07PM[SHARE]It's just the thing for a dreary January in London's theatreland: Pedro Almodóvar's gazpacho-fuelled black comedy is retold with songs and dance numbers in a sunny new production starring…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01AM[SHARE]Sometimes the description of a character in the stage directions says as much as lines of dialogue. Do you recognise these eight figures as described by the playwrights who created them? Con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Shipyards show, which currently stars its composer and lyricist, will close early at the Neil Simon theatre in New YorkSting's debut musical The Last Ship is to close on Broadway, three mont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM[SHARE]Monday, January 5, 2015
New York's theatreland also boasts largest audience attendence and a record-breaking haul during New Year week according to the Broadway League Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:16PM[SHARE]Sondheim's lyrics are some of the best we've heard. How well do you know them? Add the missing word…Declare your genius: complete Oscar Wilde's epigramsCats or Pussycat Dolls? " lyrics qui…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AM[SHARE] 
