Thursday, October 16, 2014
Royal 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 07:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Irish actor with stage, film and television credits ranging from Ibsen to Holby City Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Renowned Broadway star associated with the work of Edward Albee Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2014
Donmar 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 06:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 5, 2014
One 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 11:14AM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2014
Theres a rich and relevant political dynamic to this years Bitef programme, which explores the roots of radicalism Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35AM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2014
Formidable actor who embraced equally tragedy and farce, stage and screen Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 31, 2014
Writer, producer and ICA head in the late 60s, he had an instinct for the cutting edge Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PM[SHARE]Writer, 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 01:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Composer 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 11:01AM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2014
Dashing stage and screen actor who worked with the RSC and appeared in several American daytime television shows Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Choosing 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 12:58PM[SHARE]Monday, July 21, 2014
Chichester 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 05:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2014
Playwright 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 09:33AM[SHARE]Trafalgar 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 05:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 3, 2014
Shakespeare'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 06:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2014
Composer 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 09:53AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 15, 2014
Actor, 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 10:59AM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2014
Television 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 01:19PM[SHARE]Friday, May 30, 2014
Shakespeare'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 06:54AM[SHARE]Monday, May 12, 2014
Andrew 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 09:18AM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2014
They'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 11:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2014
A 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 11:45AM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2014
Actor 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 01:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Birmingham 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 06:07AM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2014
Stage 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 02:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2014
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 11:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 9, 2014
Rising 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 07:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Comedian 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 01:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Influential 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 10:05AM[SHARE]Monday, December 23, 2013
Birmingham 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…
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