The renowned underground theatre company confronts the past and present at home and abroadBudzma! (Cheers!) At a long, food-laden table in a noisy room of Minsk, the capital of Belarus, a to…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:00AM[SHARE]In his 70th year the actor looks back on Olivier and Gielgud, on the Oscars and his start at Bristol Old VicIn 2016 the Bristol Old Vic turned 250. To blow out the candles, England's oldest …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:00AM[SHARE]Two more versions of Wilkie Collins's thriller on stage and screen join a long rollcallThe Woman in White insists on being told and retold. Wilkie Collins's much loved thriller is perha…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:36AM[SHARE]The Scottish actor on the National Theatre staging of Network and going back to Shetland"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to stand for it!" In 1976 American anger about the state of the nat…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:54AM[SHARE]The actor stars opposite Natalie Dormer in Venus in Fur. Why is he always exploring the dark side?"He has something of Dillane about him." Thus Patrick Marber on David Oakes. "I rate him ver…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:04AM[SHARE]The actress summoned to Hollywood who lived to tell the tale, wittilyOlivia Williams's first film was, (in)famously, seen by almost no one. The Postman, Kevin Costner's futuristic flop, may …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:48AM[SHARE]The makers of quintessentially English musicals on heading back to the Edwardian era for The Wind in the Willows at the PalladiumGeorge Stiles and Anthony Drewe " Stiles and Drewe, as the so…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:06PM[SHARE]Mee the sound magician behind 'Enron', 'London Road' and now Yaël Farber's 'Salomé'No one ever went to the theatre for the sound design. Indeed, only t…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:06PM[SHARE]The National Theatre's former boss is wonderfully insightful about everything but himselfAfter the first preview of Mike Leigh's play Two Thousand Years at the National Theatre, a young…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:06PM[SHARE]The actor played pillars of the establishment, but there was much more to him than that It is the fate of a certain type of well-spoken classically trained actor to wear the livery of the En…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:18AM[SHARE]He's George to Imelda's Martha, Varys in 'Game of Thrones', and an acting genius Some know him only as Lord Varys the scheming eunuch, spymaster to the king of the Seven …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:31AM[SHARE]His great novel 'Beware of Pity' is being staged at the Barbican. Who was Zweig, and the woman with whom he committed suicide?On 23 February 1942 at half past four in the afternoon…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:42AM[SHARE]Cumberbatch's queen, Mark Strong's guilty secret, now she's pocket Olivia to Tamsin Greig's MalvoliaIn London and New York, Phoebe Fox (b. 1987) is known to theatregoers …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:18AM[SHARE]Celebrating the great British actress who rules the waves (and the Golden Globes)It was a good night for British thespians at the 2016 Golden Globes. The stars of The Night Manager " Tom Hid…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:06AM[SHARE]Jonathan Larson died before his musical struck gold. Was there more to come?On January 25 1996, after Rent's final dress rehearsal at the off-off-Broadway New York Theater Workshop, its comp…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:12AM[SHARE]The gifted master of ceremonies who is bringing his double bill of Shakespearean comedy to the West End  When Shakespeare visits the bearpit of the West End, it is usually in the company …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:12AM[SHARE]The great American playwright, back in the West End with 'Buried Child', spent three formative years in London. Those who were there rememberSam Shepard came to live in London in 1…
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