Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Luhrmann'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 03:12AMThursday, April 5, 2018
5 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 12:30AMThursday, March 15, 2018
A 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 08:34AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Paul 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 02:00AMSunday, March 11, 2018
The 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 06:00AMSaturday, February 10, 2018
Group 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 07:36AMSunday, December 17, 2017
22 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 04:24AMSaturday, December 9, 2017
Pygmalion 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 08:06PMSunday, December 3, 2017
From 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 05:42AMFriday, December 1, 2017
Mark 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 12:06PMFriday, November 10, 2017
The 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 02:18PMSaturday, October 14, 2017
As 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 11:54PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
Willkommen, 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 12:24PMSaturday, September 23, 2017
Watch 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 10:18AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
A 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 01:36AMWednesday, August 16, 2017
Lucy 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 07:04AMMonday, July 31, 2017
Sam 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 03:04PMTuesday, July 25, 2017
On 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 11:06AMMonday, July 24, 2017
As 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
The Pulitzer prize-winning writer of Angels in America will focus next on the years before the 2016 election and ‘how a country commits political suicide’ Pulitzer prize-winning playwrig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMSaturday, July 8, 2017
As Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita gets ready to return to the West End stage, we take a look at productions through the years Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12PMMove comes after outspoken director was questioned in a high-profile criminal investigation that supporters claim is politically motivatedRussia’s Bolshoi theatre has announced the cancell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
The playwright, who died last year, made provisions in his will to ensure any remaining manuscripts were never published. But, as with Nabokov and Kafka, will his dying wishes be ignored?Nam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMMonday, June 19, 2017
“When you throw the doors open and anyone can just rock up … how is that fair?” In a West Midlands incident room, Priti reports a violent attack Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AM“52% of the country can’t all be scum” … In Wigan, Reece hopes to introduce his girlfriend to his leave-voting dad Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AM“We know what it means to be divided.” A mother reflects on Brexit’s consequences for Northern Ireland Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AM“You made me a refugee where I was born …” In Glasgow, Chummy explains how England has turned Scots into survivors Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AM“I thought we’d be less angry. But we’re not.” In Winchester, Eleanor wonders why voting leave hasn’t made her happier Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMFriday, June 16, 2017
A year after the EU referendum result revealed a deeply divided nation, the Guardian and Headlong theatre company present Brexit Shorts. This major new series of online dramas stars Kristin …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMMonday, June 12, 2017
Bette Midler wins the 2017 Tony award for best actress in a revival of a musical before delivering a long and rambling acceptance speech, shouting ‘Shut that crap off!’ when organisers a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM 
