Having worked his magic as director of the Almeida theatre, the gifted Goold is bound for greater glories: the National had better watch out Rupert Goold, as director, has made the Almeida t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny Great actors have alw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]The Hollywood star is to appear at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in Shakespeare's late play about sorcery. But what is the secret to playing the great magician? I have one thing in common with An…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM[SHARE]With a remarkable knack of bringing history to life on stage and screen, West honed his craft with devotion and delight' Timothy West, star of stage, screen and television, dies aged 90' Tim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]The 1895 comedy has been staged with age-blind and all-male casts and even David Suchet as Lady Bracknell. Now reinvented again, at the National Theatre, the trick is to be seriously funny I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]His gangster Hitler in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui turned him into a star but from his earliest roles the actor had an unforgettable expressive force ' Rossiter interviewed by the Guard…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]I was 16 when I became obsessed with Look Back in Anger. Now, in a double bill with Roots at the Almeida, both dramas' eternal truths are clear John Osborne and Arnold Wesker had a lot in co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]A £15m, four-storey space in Liverpool is to be dedicated to the man once known as Professor Yaffle Chuckabutty. Let's hope it will delve as deeply as he did into comedy's infinite variat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PM[SHARE]West joined a starry cast for script-in-hand readings of Christopher Marlowe's complete works in Canterbury. The resulting films are frustrating On paper, it sounds a fine idea: to film all …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]As he hits an extraordinary landmark, the playwright relives his first drama, which made him £30, and recalls bouncing back from the stroke that left him desolate and devoid of ideas It i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00AM[SHARE]Samuel Beckett's groundbreaking play is back again, this time starring Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati. Its tragicomic take on existence may match our cultural moment Godot keeps on coming. A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AM[SHARE]In hospitals around the UK, InterAct provides bespoke readings tailored to patients' tastes. Practitioners explain how they benefit too In 2000, the theatre director Caroline Smith nursed he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM[SHARE]More than 250 works by 40 stage talents are on display in London for an impressively wide-ranging event that supports the Theatre Artists Fund A couple of years ago, two fine actors, Nancy C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]A welcome glimpse of what is playing beyond Britain, this year's programme includes a deeply moving drama of migrant jeopardy and an intriguing Three Sisters The Venice Biennale is always as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Set for revival at the RSC, this perfectly structured revenge comedy has an earthy vitality that no aristo or scholar could have created I have a question for those theatrical luminaries (an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]The theatre director, now teaching at Oxford after years running the RSC, thinks The Two Gentlemen of Verona is perfect for a young cast to argue over. We go into rehearsals Which is Shakesp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Griffiths, who has died aged 88, explored the conflict between reform and revolution in plays and scripts from the film Reds to dramas such as Occupations, The Party and Comedians Of all the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]One of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century, Bond " who has died aged 89 " confronted audiences with 'the crisis in the human species' Edward Bond, who has died aged 89, was a phenome…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist's surreal imagination " are solo shows the most successful? Dickens and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PM[SHARE]Eugene O'Neill's mighty drama, returning to the West End with Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson, has drawn generations of stage greats and casts its spell with a story we can all recognise How…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:02PM[SHARE]Sean Mathias has reimagined his 2021 production of the tragedy as a movie, inventively using Windsor's Theatre Royal and capturing McKellen's subtle performance How best to film a stage prod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AM[SHARE]Ian McKellen follows in the footsteps of David Warner and Antony Sher as he takes on a character who has been played as wittily jovial and cruelly cunning When asked why he had never played …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM[SHARE]Party punch-ups, brides in disguise, simmering family rancour … playwrights have cordially invited audiences to some nightmarish nuptials There are myriad plays about marriage. Far fewer a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM[SHARE]Best known for writing Tom and Viv, Hastings made his debut as a teenage dramatist in the 1950s. Now, his vivid 'young man's play' Don't Destroy Me is back We watch old movies. We read old n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]One of the great postwar theatre directors, Blakemore " who has died aged 95 " had a vast range and was a formidable writer It is sadly ironic that the death of Michael Blakemore, at the age…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]A superb, starry cast in the West End paid homage to the musical duo behind Carousel, Oklahoma! and South Pacific. If only the concert had also addressed their shows' contradictions The star…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Katie Mitchell has compared her experiences of hierarchies in British and German theatre. Our strength has always lain in honouring the text Katie Mitchell this week gave the annual lecture …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PM[SHARE]From a sportive Falstaff for the RSC to a powerful Juan Perón in Evita, Ackland " who has died aged 95 " rarely had the star role but was a reassuring presence Joss Ackland, who has died …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PM[SHARE]Despite being panned as 'a dirty act done publicly' on its London premiere, the tragedy is now regarded as a classic " here are three productions that radically shifted our perspective Today…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PM[SHARE]A pilot scheme means some performances will now begin at 6.30pm. That means more time for eating, travelling and " most importantly " discussing the show 'The drama's laws the drama's patron…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AM[SHARE]The NT has a civic duty to revive woefully neglected plays from the world repertory. Doing so will make modern drama stronger Writing about the National Theatre on its 50th anniversary, I sa…
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