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Friday, January 23, 2015

Josie Long webchat – post your questions now by Guardian Staff

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 q…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AM

Handbagged: see David Suchet as Lady Bracknell by Guardian Staff

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 L…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AM

Funny feeling: Idil Sukan's soulful snaps of standups – in pictures by Guardian Staff

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 Coo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:41AM
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Sets appeal: jaw-dropping stage designs from around the world – in pictures by Guardian Staff

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 …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AM
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Anne Hathaway to perform Grounded in New York by Guardian Staff

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

Nothing to Lose: 'This is not just a show about fat happy dancing people' – video by Guardian Staff

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

Brian Blessed pictures quiz: identify the mighty actor's roles by Guardian Staff

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

Mark Rylance: Richard III gave me lesson in 'vicious nature of fate' by Guardian Staff

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 …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AM
Monday, January 19, 2015

Democratic design is bad for theatres by Guardian Staff

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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:16PM
Friday, January 16, 2015

Idina Menzel to sing national anthem at 2015 Super Bowl by Guardian Staff

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
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Al Murray, The Pub Landlord, to challenge Nigel Farage in general election - video by Guardian Staff

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
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Frances Barber: Shakespeare and Mamet give the actor everything – video by Guardian Staff

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.Thi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AM
Monday, January 12, 2015

A blast at our smug theatre: Edward Bond on Sarah Kane by Guardian Staff

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 vio…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AM

Kate Ashfield on Sarah Kane's Blasted: 'the whole run was charged with energy' by Guardian Staff

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

Sarah Kane: Why can’t theatre be as gripping as footie? by Guardian Staff

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 …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30AM
Saturday, January 10, 2015

On my radar: Peter Kosminsky’s cultural highlights by Guardian Staff

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

Idina Menzel’s If/Then is let go by Broadway by Guardian Staff

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
Friday, January 9, 2015

Kooza: Cirque du Soleil clown around at the Royal Albert Hall – in pictures by Guardian Staff

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
Thursday, January 8, 2015

English National Ballet's Swan Lake: Alina Cojocaru fits the bill – in pictures by Guardian Staff

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 Guard…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:28AM
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Sienna Miller comes to Broadway's Cabaret to replace Emma Stone by Guardian Staff

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

Tamsin meets Pedro: Women on the Verge, the West End musical by Guardian Staff

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 star…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01AM

Playwrights describe their characters: can you identify them? – quiz by Guardian Staff

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
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Sting's musical The Last Ship ends its voyage on Broadway by Guardian Staff

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 mo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM
Monday, January 5, 2015

Broadway enjoys highest-grossing year ever in 2014 by Guardian Staff

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

Can you rhyme like Sondheim? – quiz by Guardian Staff

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 q…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AM
Saturday, December 27, 2014

From the archive, 27 December 1877: The mysterious disappearance of Grimaldi's brother by Guardian Staff

The famous clown is reunited with his long lost brother one night at the theatre where he is performing, only for him to vanish again foreverClowns mark Grimaldi Day at church in east London…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30AM
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Around the world in 40 pirouettes: backstage at English National Ballet's Nutcracker – in pictures by Guardian Staff

Merry Christmas! To get in the festive mood, we went to the rehearsals for English National Ballet’s Nutcracker and watched dances from Spain, Arabia, China and RussiaENB’s Nutcracker is…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

John Osborne: in his own (and others’) words by Guardian Staff

On the 20th anniversary of the playwright’s death, look back at how his work has been assessed by the critics, Olivier, David Hare – and Osborne himself“Jimmy Porter is a young man who…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM

From the archive, 24 December 1853: Little Red Riding Hood is the new Christmas panto by Guardian Staff

The Theatre Royal, Manchester, since its opening in September 1845, has given us eight annual pantomimes Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30AM
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Billie Whitelaw – a screen and stage career in pictures by Guardian Staff

The actor Billie Whitelaw, who was best known for her work with Samuel Beckett and film roles such as Violet in The Krays, has died aged 82. She was awarded a CBE by the Queen in the 1991 bi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10PM

Kevin Spacey, Debbie Harry, Slavoj Zižek: the best answers to your webchat questions by Guardian Staff

Does John Lydon fear death? How does Flying Lotus see himself in 20 years’ time? How does Tracey Emin deal with the haters? What we’ve learned from a year in webchats … Continue readin…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM

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