Stage 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AMRising star of British theatre design gifted with freewheeling, witty inventivenessOne of the emerging stars of British theatre design, Naomi Wilkinson, who has died aged 50, was unusually g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AMComedian and actor best known for the satirical television show Bremner, Bird and FortuneJohn Fortune, who has died aged 74 after a long illness, was a distinguished member of the Oxbridge g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:47PMInfluential comedy agent who wheeled and dealed to turn his clients into starsThe colourful comedy agent Addison Cresswell, who has died suddenly at the age of 53, changed the face of Briti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:05AMBirmingham Hippodrome: Although Snow White is really a fairytale, it has become one of the top six most popular pantomimes over the past 50 years, combining the basic Grimm story with elemen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:05AMRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: JM Barrie's Peter Pan play was first performed in 1904 and his novel, Wendy and Peter, published in 1911. Ella Hickson's modern new …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMNoel Coward Theatre, London: Jude Law doesn't swagger as Henry V, he ambles. And just in time, too, as he hovers on the brink of maturity: a facially stubbled, spiritually troubled youn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AMNoel Coward Theatre, London: Jude Law doesn't swagger as Henry V, he ambles. And just in time, too, as he hovers on the brink of maturity: a facially stubbled, spiritually troubled youn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMStage and screen actor known for playing battle-axe aunts, village gossips and servantsWhen Mel Brooks visited the film set of Up at the Villa (2000), in which his wife, Anne Bancroft, was s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMProlific comedy actor who worked with Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan and Hattie JacquesThe stony-faced, beaky comedy actor Graham Stark, who has died aged 91, is best remembered…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMPowerful stage and screen actor often cast as an aristocrat, king or moustachioed villainWhen the whisky flowed, according to the writer John Heilpern, the actor Nigel Davenport looked "as i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMDistinguished translator of postwar German playsAnthony Vivis, who has died suddenly aged 70, was a renowned translator of postwar German plays that habitually documented mythical misery in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:27AMRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: The Royal Shakespeare Company enters a new era under Gregory Doran with this decisive, intelligent and notably well-spoken revival of a chroni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMActor who played many major Shakespearean roles on the stageFew actors played as many major Shakespearean roles as did Paul Rogers, a largely forgotten and seriously underrated performer, wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PMOld Vic, London: Strained, perverse, unfunny: in this geriatric wartime Much Ado, Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones (combined age, 158 years) unwisely extend the possibility of love'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMNoel Coward Theatre, London: The Michael Grandage Company's fourth play in a season of five is a straightforward, fast and furious revival of Shakespeare's most popular comedy. It&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMStage and screen actor who started in satirical revue and went on to become a familiar figure on television and radioNot many actors encompass political satire on the radio, comedy at the Ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMVersatile actor who brought intelligence and grace to her many roles on the Irish stageIce cool on stage, with sharp good looks and a wit to match them, Susan FitzGerald, who has died aged 6…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMPassionate actor who commanded the stage at Glasgow's Citizens theatre and the RSCGerard Murphy, who has died of prostate cancer aged 64, was a rare sort of full-hearted actor, always on the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMOne of Poland's greatest playwrights whose most famous play, Tango, was a modern-day HamletAlthough he spent his final years in France, and has died aged 83 in Nice, Sławomir Mrozek was alw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: Nancy Meckler's revival of a "problem" play that always delights begins with a series of mimsy tableaux in silhouette. Read the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMMichael Coveney explores the work of Michael Grandage Company Futures, taking a look at the group’s response piece to The Cripple of Inishmaan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:48AMElegant and meticulous actor whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to EastEndersPaul Bhattacharjee, who has been found dead aged 53, was one of the country's leading British Asian actors, a ke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:53AMSt Peter's Church, Manchester: Kenneth Branagh hasn't played in Shakespeare for more than ten years, but his technical assurance and deceptive fluency and naturalness remain unaltered. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMPalace, Manchester: As a beautifully lit new work off the Robert Wilson derriere-garde assembly line, The Old Woman at the fourth biennial Manchester International Festival is a stunner - co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMRoyal Shakespeare Company actor who later pursued a successful career in TV crime dramaDavid Lyon, who has died aged 72, was a popular and versatile actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PMAmerican-born dramatist known for her affinity with French absurdist theatre and her many BBC radio adaptationsOlwen Wymark, who has died aged 81, was an American-born fringe theatre and BBC…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AMGraceful stage actor who stood out in Doctor Who on TV and the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate FactoryIn a long and distinguished career, the actor Aubrey Woods, who has died aged 85, cov…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PMOlivier, National Theatre: Nicholas Hytner and Adrian Lester present a soldier's tragedy in a contemporary military compound that could be anywhere - Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan - where t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMRoyal and Derngate, Northampton: Shakespeare is a rarity in the cash-strapped reps, but Gary Sefton's brilliant Northampton Dream in the always delightful Theatre Royal with just eight …
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