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 03:03PMThe 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 02:12AMAs 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 07:24AMA 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 04:24AMComics 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 05:06AMThe 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 03:32AMIn 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 01:33PMOphelia 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 01:12PMIn 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 11:48PMIt 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 02:06AMIt’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 03:12AM5 April 1921 There was a wonderful range in Mme. Bernhardt’s acting, the words hammered out and chiselled and turned into a statuesque eloquence“DANIEL” AT THE PRINCE’S THEATRELONDON…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30AMA gripping story of the Calais camp. A caper about media greed. A pair of startling dramas from Caryl Churchill. Leading playwrights choose their favourite political playsJoe Murphy and Joe …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMPaul O’Grady’s family cheered him outside court. Alan Davies couldn’t get a word in over lunch. And he got Frank Cottrell Boyce by the chuckle muscle. Stars remember the brilliantly bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMThe comedian on his rhubarb tea addiction, the mastery of standup John Kearns, and his love of The CorrectionsTim Key, the comedian, actor, writer and performance poet, was born in Cambridge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AMGroup seeks £3m to buy historic West End venueA group of women from the world of the performing arts has launched a campaign to buy a West End theatre with the aim of making it a venue that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM22 November 1930 – 11 September 2017The playwright recalls the RSC founder as a man who championed public engagement with British culture while keeping his personal feelings to himself• …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM5 November 1943 – 27 July 2017The actor and playwright’s best friend recalls a 50-year bond based on their shared love of literature, letters and life in the fast lane • Howard Hodgkin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMPygmalion is taken off the British stage ahead of the musical version, My Fair LadyThe Society of Authors has a long record of honourable service to the writing profession and its many admir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMFrom faking illness to binning Brexit chat, standups including Rachel Parris, Milton Jones and Phil Wang share advice on taking the hassle out of the holidaysRachel Parris: Wear something hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMMark Thomas was moved by Bill Hicks. Tim Key loved Jackson's Way. Olivia Poulet loved Tim Key … Performers and theatre-makers pick their all-time festival favouritesIn 1988, I was performi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMThe comedian released a statement regarding the claims: ‘The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly’Louis CK: laughter ends as years…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMAs a schoolboy, Harold Pinter took on bullies and fought with fascists. Later, as a playwright, he took on the entire critical establishment. Henry Woolf, who is appearing in a revival of Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54PMWillkommen, bienvenue, welcome … as Cabaret returns to Broadway, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Michelle Williams and Alan Cumming, take a look at past productions with Liza Minnelli,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMWatch a scene from Richard Eyre's revival of Ibsen's Ghosts for the Almeida theatre which won Oliviers for best actress (Lesley Manville) and best actor in a supporting role (Jack Lowden). A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMA lapdancing club in upstate New York is arguing that it should be tax-exempt because its performances are 'art'. Has it got a point?On Wednesday, the classily named strip club Nite Moves in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AMLucy Porter caused a break-up. Romesh Ranganathan did a diabetes panel show. And Clive Anderson was attacked with scissors. Comics relive their worst moments on stageA guy in the crowd had b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMSam Shepard, the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author, whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PMOn its UK debut in 1958, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was regarded as so racy that the censors denied it a public licence. Since then, it has gained a reputation as Tennessee Williams's best play �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMAs Frank Skinner reveals he will appear in the latest Doctor Who series, take a look at these other standup, sketch and sitcom comedians – from John Cleese to Catherine Tate – who have …
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