Thursday, December 14, 2017
Audiences can tell the difference between provocation and exploitation, writes Justin Sherin, while Patrick Kennedy suggests a braver theatre would have gone ahead with the productionThe Roy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMMonday, November 27, 2017
Giving Tuesday | French insects | Paddington 2 | The Guardian’s values | Dying Swan | Duetting with the deadAlan Machin (Letters, 27 November) is right when he suggests a charitable antido…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PMFriday, November 3, 2017
Digital pressure on newsagents | Macron’s poem | Decline in the wasp population | Fake news | The Rose theatre | Carles PuigdemontTomorrow, sadly, our village post office/newsagent is clo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PMFriday, October 27, 2017
The committee of the Casting Directors’ Guild of the UK & Ireland responds to Sarah Solemani’s experiences of auditioning for roles. Plus Robert Sanderson highlights the inventive se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMWednesday, October 18, 2017
Margaret Thatcher | Theatre acoustics: anthems and amplifiers | Solutions to table wobbles: tripods and Paddington Bear’s saw | Sean Hughes and Crystal PalaceMike Ellwood (Letters, 18 Octo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Michael Daley’s student visit to the theatre suggested to him that the ancient Greeks had indeed been in possession of wonderful knowledgeExperts from a university of technology armed with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMEquity insists that a diverse range of performers should be auditioned for every production, writes Hilary Hadley. The Golden Dragon was a poor choice of target for criticism, say Professor …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMMonday, October 16, 2017
Reader Irvine Stuart commends Laura Barton’s writingSincere thanks to Laura Barton for her excellent review of Bruce Springsteen on Broadway (13 October). Rich in insights while devoid of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMFriday, October 6, 2017
It’s always worth reading a notice by the Guardian’s theatre critic, even when there’s little or no chance of seeing the play being reviewed, writes Robin WendtIn his letter (3 October…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33PMTuesday, October 3, 2017
Bathtime routines | Regional galleries | Paying more tax | Piebury corner | Theatre ticketsVivienne Westwood, like me, although a few years younger, was brought up in the austere 1940s and 5…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMMonday, October 2, 2017
Ryanair | Kipling | Sunday lunch spots | Getting theatre tickets | Twitter | Dairy intoleranceWe keep hearing that the Ryanair crisis is due to a shortage of trained pilots (Opinion, 30 Sept…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PMThursday, September 21, 2017
Harry Dean Stanton | Boris Johnson | Dancing about architecture | Fatberg | Ornithology of meetings | Ambridge antidoteYour obituary for Harry Dean Stanton (18 September) mispunctuates the t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:23AMSunday, September 17, 2017
Brexit | Attenborough statue | Species extinction | Musicals | Hymns | A month in AmbridgeThe Brexit-supporting academic who complains about being shunned by colleagues when they reveal thei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PMThursday, September 14, 2017
Sir Peter Hall’s later years at Kingston University saw him still producing vivid and challenging theatre, says Richard WilsonMichael Billington describes “a certain sadness” in Peter …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMWednesday, September 13, 2017
Valuing people | National heroes | First names | Nipple pasties | Steely Dan | Boris JohnsonNow that a way has been found to calculate the asset value of a tree (Put a price on trees and hal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMSunday, August 13, 2017
Modern singers depend for power and vocal strength on technology as well as their own skills, says Ian Flintoff; and Sara Neil on the ‘belting’ vocal techniqueBernhard Warner (Why do sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMFriday, August 11, 2017
Readers recall seeing Max Wall and an angry French actor as the eponymous character in Samuel Beckett’s one-act-play Krapp’s Last TapeCongratulations to Michael Billington for capturing …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMGuardian reviewers should flag up when there are cinema screenings of stage performances for those who cannot get their hands on a ticket, says Jane HarveyLyn Gardner lists the Young Vic’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMThursday, June 15, 2017
MPs’ health | Spanish dance teachers | Rail privatisation | Ivanka Trump factory | Michael GoveJames Graham may well be correct about the physical and mental stress that is “part and par…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PMSunday, June 11, 2017
Tim Farron | Greek words | Theresa May | Vicars’ daughters | The DUPTim Farron was half right in claiming that Theresa May “put her party before her country” (From hubris to humiliatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMMonday, June 5, 2017
The phrase seems to be derived from the world of corruption and privilege portrayed by John Galsworthy, writes Dr David BlazeyThe phrase “strong and stable government” seems to be derive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMMonday, May 8, 2017
A reader is unimpressed by Leicester cathedral’s decision to allow Shakespeare’s Richard III to be staged close to the real king’s resting place“Dignity and honour” the authorities…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMMonday, May 1, 2017
The main problem is TV presenters’ poor articulation, argues Alan HuntingtonIn her letter (29 April), Mary McKeown refers to “hearing” and “audibility”. Certainly, audibility is an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMFriday, April 28, 2017
Reader Mary McKeown applauds Dame Judi Dench for speaking up about actors delivering inaudible linesHurrah for Dame Judi Dench (Get off the sofa and learn your Shakespeare, Dench tells young…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMMonday, April 24, 2017
Austen Lynch on Shakespeare’s folk sources and Jan Dubé on the gods that permeate the languageThe Royal Shakespeare Company’s project to celebrate the myth and magic of the influence of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMWednesday, March 29, 2017
Rugby league v union | Civilian casualties | Incompetent TV detectives | Office thieves | Alcohol intakeThe obituary of David Storey (28 March) mentioned that he attended Wakefield’s Queen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31PMWednesday, March 8, 2017
Suzanne Moore (Public eating is fraught, 2 March) writes on Imelda Staunton’s plea for those coming to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at London’s Harold Pinter theatre to desist f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMFriday, January 20, 2017
Deborah Orr laments the loss of Play for Today (Opinion, 14 January). The effect that it had in exploring social issues is illustrated by the charity Action against Medical Accidents, which …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMTuesday, January 17, 2017
It is with sadness that I read of the closure of the Barnum & Bailey/Ringling Bros Circus (Animal rights campaigners celebrate closure of 146-year-old US circus, 16 January). It was a ph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMSunday, January 15, 2017
Deborah Orr (Why can’t TV make new plays for today?, 14 January) correctly points out that British playwrights are tackling many of the major social issues today in the theatre instead of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PMSunday, December 25, 2016
Thank you, Michael Billington, for your timely warning against “the filthiest panto” you’ve ever seen (Julian Clary unleashes a tsunami of smut in eye-popping gag-fest, 22 December). B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM 
