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Monday, March 4, 2013

How we made: The Rocky Horror Picture Show by Kate Abbott

Writer and actor Richard O'Brien and composer Richard Hartley remember how three weeks at the Royal Court turned into a gender-bending 20th Century Fox extravaganzaRichard O'Brien, writer an…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PM

Monday, December 10, 2012

Best theatre of 2012, No 10: Ten Billion, Royal Court by Kate Abbott

Our rundown of the year's best British theatre begins with a devastating and deceptively undramatic piece about climate changeIt's a rare show that makes you want to get immediately, urgentl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM

Friday, February 3, 2012

Zach Braff on All New People: 'It's Breakfast Club for adults' - video by Kate Abbott, Lindsay Poulton, Mary Douglas-Home and Cameron Robertson

Zach Braff might be best-known for playing the nervy, nerdy doctor JD in hit US show Scrubs, but he's also trying his hand at writing drama. Braff tells Kate Abbott about his play All New Pe…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:39AM

Monday, May 23, 2011

Jerry Seinfeld, comedian by Kate Abbott

'I once did a show at a disco in 1977. Nobody stopped dancing, and I stood there doing the set to myself'When did you realise you were funny?I thought everyone was funny in the beginning. Th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PM

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