Actor whose compelling presence inspired new works by Samuel Beckett and made her a chilling nanny in The Omen Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMStage and screen actor who played Mary Magdalene in the 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told and appeared in several popular TV dramas of the 1970s Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:35PMTheatre producer and writer who co-founded the Belgrade international theatre festival Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMVersatile actor who combined grace with gravity in her many roles over 65 years Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: In the Royal Shakepeare Company's repertory pairing of these two plays, the idea is that the Great War separates the Edwardian idyll of L…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AMIrish actor with stage, film and television credits ranging from Ibsen to Holby City Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:46PMRenowned Broadway star associated with the work of Edward Albee Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AMDonmar Warehouse, London: Denmark's a prison in Hamlet, and so is England's body politic in this brutal two-hour, all-female compression of both parts of Henry IV. The audience ass…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMOne of Russia's great radical directors and founder of the Taganka theatre in Moscow, he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship after visiting Britain in 1983 Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:14AMTheres a rich and relevant political dynamic to this years Bitef programme, which explores the roots of radicalism Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35AMFormidable actor who embraced equally tragedy and farce, stage and screen Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMWriter, producer and ICA head in the late 60s, he had an instinct for the cutting edge Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMWriter, producer and ICA head in the late 60s, he had an instinct for the cutting edgeNot many people in the arts over the past half-century in Britain had as big an influence behind the sce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMComposer and lyricist best known for The Boy Friend, a fresh and revolutionary musical that took the West End by storm Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMDashing stage and screen actor who worked with the RSC and appeared in several American daytime television shows Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:35PMChoosing your valedictory acting role is a tricky business. From Laurence Olivier to Sid James, here are some of the most memorable final stage appearances Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PMChichester Festival Theatre: Rupert Everett's baroque and droll, dark night of the soul in Peter Shaffer's classic relaunches the Chichester Festival Theatre. Built for a mere &…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMPlaywright best known for The Herbal Bed and his RSC collaborations with the director Bill AlexanderThe playwright Peter Whelan, who has died aged 82, lived a full life before turning to the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMTrafalgar Studios, London: Martin Freeman takes a sidekick's revenge on his television boss Sherlock Holmes in pipping Benedict Cumberbatch to the post as Richard Crookback; Bendy goes …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMShakespeare's Globe, London: The volatility of the Roman mob and the intensity of public debate define this swift and impassioned revival by Dominic Dromgoole: it's a perfect match of p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMComposer of the musical Once Upon a Mattress who went on to write the bestseller Freaky FridayMary Rodgers, who has died aged 83, was a composer and songwriter whose 1959 musical Once Upon a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:53AMActor, writer and producer at the heart of Scottish theatre who co-founded the 7:84 touring companyDavid MacLennan, who has died aged 65 after suffering from motor neurone disease, was at th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:59AMTelevision scriptwriter and playwright who made his name with the smash hit tragicomedy My Night With RegThe playwright Kevin Elyot, who has died aged 62 after a long illness, is best rememb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PMShakespeare's Globe, London: You collect a small brown envelope with your ticket, and inside is a handful of golden confetti to be thrown on the wind when the two lovers celebrate their reun…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMAndrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice created the 20th century's first (and last) great rock opera with flashes of Prokofiev and Stravinsky amid its hosannas even Shostakovich was a fanUntil qui…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThey've been fainting in the aisles at the Globe, due to a stomach-churning production of Titus Andronicus. Here are five more examples of the power of on-stage physical aggressionAudience m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMA founder member of the Ken Campbell Roadshow, Hoskins later made a definitive Nathan Detroit in Guys and DollsFor someone who entered the theatre by accident, Bob Hoskins preserved a sort o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMActor and producer who played Brad Majors in the original Rocky Horror Show in 1974 and Saffy's gay dad in Ab FabChristopher Malcolm, who has died of cancer aged 67, played Brad Majors in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMBirmingham Repertory Theatre: It is a sign of the times in the reps that you are as likely to find a revival of Alan Ayckbourn or Ibsen as a touring production of, well, a perfectly decent c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMStage engineer and theatre consultant whose innovative use of the latest technology changed the way audiences saw playsThere was a moment in 1988 when the future of theatre suddenly loomed l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:47PMStage and screen actor best known for his roles in Only Fools and Horses, The Vicar of Dibley and Harry PotterThe talented and idiosyncratic character actor Roger Lloyd Pack, who has died of…
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