Monday, July 30, 2018
Event features Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and a sculpture by Antony Gormley at crossing points between north and southVisitors to the only arts festival that straddles the Irish bo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMFriday, June 8, 2018
Young Ones stars to appear on stage in Vulcan 7 as has-beens stuck in a literal and TV-career wastelandTwo slightly matured Young Ones, Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer, have reunited to wr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMWednesday, June 6, 2018
Performed at St Giles-in-the-Fields, The End of History outlines site’s transformation from gin-soaked squalor to swanky hangoutIn William Hogarth’s celebrated print Gin Lane, the church…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMTuesday, June 5, 2018
Show starring Kelli O’Hara and Ken Watanabe to get 14-week run in UK before tour of AsiaFestooned with awards and five-star reviews, the Broadway production of the classic musical The King…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Show opening in Sheffield looks at hidden history of female and black circus performersMiss La La was the star of the show when Edgar Degas painted her in 1879 hanging by her teeth from the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMFriday, February 23, 2018
Singer takes over from fellow Scot Sheena Easton as vengeful Dorothy Brock at Theatre RoyalLulu is returning to the West End stage after an absence of more than 30 years to star in 42nd Stre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34PMThursday, December 28, 2017
London museum obtains outfit as part of collection passed to family of dancer’s sister, Bronislava NajinskaA silk costume designed by Léon Bakst and worn by Vaslav Nijinsky, one of the gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMWednesday, November 1, 2017
The 13-sided temporary structure, modelled on the Elizabethan playhouse, will house four Shakespeare plays directed by Lindsay Posner and Damien CrudenA 950-capacity pop-up open-air theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMSunday, October 29, 2017
Collection charts east London theatre from Victorian pomp to near collapse, then shabby but structurally sound redemptionAn archive recording the glory days as well as the decay and near col…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMSunday, May 21, 2017
My friend Henry Lewis, who has died aged 70, was a happy soul who woke up humming and often sang his way through the day – often delivering renditions of his own songs, though he could als…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMMonday, March 13, 2017
London arts space is holding a fund-raising auction and inviting the public to contribute ideas for the Phoenix season to mark reopening of grand hall next yearIt is two years to the day sin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMTuesday, February 14, 2017
Card whose receipt Bernard Shaw noted in his diary is identified in uncatalogued album and will go on displayOn 14 February 1886, George Bernard Shaw wrote in his diary: “Got a handsome Va…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMSunday, February 5, 2017
Actor Susannah Harker and relatives bid farewell to Joseph Harker’s 1905 London studio which may be turned into flatsThe actor Susannah Harker and a chorus line of her theatrical relatives…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMWednesday, February 1, 2017
Described by director as ‘Rome meets the West Wing’, six-play adaption will be grand finale of the company’s Rome seasonThe Royal Shakespeare Company is creating a six-play adaptation …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMThursday, November 10, 2016
The newly excavated Curtain theatre in Shoreditch is believed to be where Henry V and Romeo and Juliet were first performedThe battle scenes of Shakespeare’s Henry V and the dances and swo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMThursday, October 13, 2016
The Great Evanion, then down on his luck, gave photographs, tickets, playbills and posters to library in 1895In 1895 the British Library did something extraordinary: it bought, for 20 shilli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:27PMTuesday, September 20, 2016
New crop of illusionists and escapologists aim to breathe life into classic tricksIt could turn out to be a “now you see it, now you don’t” trick in which a million pounds vanishes int…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMSaturday, September 10, 2016
Actor will return to the UK in order to stage Zach Helm’s play Good Canary at Kingston’s Rose theatreThe American actor John Malkovich is heading to the UK – not to the West End stage,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMSaturday, July 30, 2016
£6m parody penned by Harry Hill and Steve Brown latest West End flop despite warm reviews and a divine Simon Cowell• Mark Lawson: Why I Can't Sing was voted off• Judge a song from I Can…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:01AMFriday, July 1, 2016
Former Harry Potter star recognised for performance in The Cripple of Inishmaan while Rupert Grint also wins prize• Michael Grandage rules out second season of West End showsFormer Harry P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMMonday, June 6, 2016
British playwright, who also won an Oscar for film adaptation of Amadeus, has died after falling seriously ill last weekThe playwright Sir Peter Shaffer, whose critical and popular successes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AMTuesday, May 17, 2016
Foundations of the Curtain where Romeo and Juliet and Henry V were possibly first staged uncovered in ShoreditchThe foundations and shoulder-high walls of the Curtain theatre, where Shakespe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMWednesday, April 20, 2016
The still-functioning school in Stratford-upon-Avon opens its doors after a £1.8m restorationThe school room in Stratford-upon-Avon where Shakespeare learned “small Latin and less Greek�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMFriday, April 15, 2016
The entrance hall to Brunel’s 19th-century tunnel under the Thames has been turned into a unique auditorium, complete with the rumble of Tube trainsThe engineers Marc and his son Isambard …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMA new production of Brideshead Revisited will signal the relaunch of one of the UK’s oldest theatres, after the discovery of medieval remains forced its closureThe Theatre Royal in York, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AMWednesday, March 2, 2016
Playwright’s New Place mansion, which was demolished in 1759, is re-imagined following major excavation projectIn July a grand bronze-studded oak door will swing open on the main street of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:53PMFriday, February 5, 2016
The eclectic film actor has confirmed he will stage Zach Helm’s Good Canary at Kingston’s Rose theatre next year The American actor John Malkovich is heading to the UK – not to the Wes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Shakespeare’s Globe project to show 37 new 10-minute films on 37 screens laid out along Thames path between Westminster and London BridgeShakespeare’s Globe theatre is to mark the 400th …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:51PMTuesday, November 17, 2015
Dozens of cultural organisations will join forces in 2016 as part of a cross-disciplinary fiesta to mark 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, including a major exhibition at the British Li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:46AMFriday, September 18, 2015
Once-beloved venues such as the Brighton Hippodrome and Morecambe Winter Gardens could disappear completely after falling into disrepairThe Theatres Trust has announced that 31 theatres acro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFriday, August 14, 2015
Director Carrie Cracknell and choreographer Lucy Guerin will stage the gory tragedy with a company of actors and dancers Anna Maxwell Martin, the steely star of the BBC adaptation of Charles…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:20PM 
