Royal 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 …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMDirector and writer celebrated for his work at Chichester Festival theatre and the BBCThe career of Patrick Garland, who has died aged 78, was as varied as it was productive. An actor, produ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:35AMWelsh-born actor and Richard Burton's first wife, she moved to the US after their split and co-founded a famous New York discoSybil Christopher, who has died aged 83, was the injured party i…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PMTrafalgar Studios, London: What is the world of Macbeth? Medieval, Gothic, mythical? Jamie Lloyd's production in the opening volley of his Trafalgar Transformed season goes completely p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:06AMGenial star of the sitcom The Good Life who impressed in a range of roles on stageWhen he played Hamlet as a young man, Richard Briers, who has died aged 79 after suffering from a lung condi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31AMTheatre Royal, Norwich: The opening in the Theatre Royal, Norwich, of this year's Propeller tour signals the unusual step of reviving two successes of 2006/7. Running out of plays must …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: There's a striking take on the separate worlds of The Winter's Tale in Lucy Bailey's new RSC production, designed by William Du…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMMusical theatre star known as 'the champagne soprano'Lizbeth Webb, one of the great forgotten stars of British musical theatre in the 1940s and 1950s, has died aged 86. Known as "the champag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMMichael Coveney catches up with the Adelaide Festival's new artistic director David Sefton and finds there is a special UK connection to his first programme
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMVibrant actor who achieved success in Bollywood films, West End musicals and on Coronation StreetSophiya Haque's performance in Peter Nichols's Privates on Parade, which opened last month at…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMActor who found her true calling as translator of the French dramatist Jean AnouilhLucienne Hill, who has died aged 89, was best known for her translations of the French dramatist Jean Anoui…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMUnion Theatre, London: The Shakespeare Apocrypha - which are all about attribution, not authorship - include relatively well known titles like Sir John Oldcastle, or the Yorkshire Tragedy; b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AMDonmar Warehouse: Rome under Caesar is Holloway Prison, and the inmates are putting on a protest show. It's a case of 22 jail birds, one guvnor, and the cages are rattling with the soun…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMActor who shared the stage with her husband, Paul ScofieldSlim, dark, quick-moving and pretty, the actor Joy Parker appeared at the Birmingham Rep in her early 20s and, in 1942, pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:26AMActor in One Man, Two Guvnors who switched from Wall Street to BroadwayVery few actors start out in middle age, having thrown off a previous life as a high-flying money broker, and live…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:53AMActor known for his roles as clergymen, favourite uncles and tragic-comic charactersThere is a great tradition in the rotundity of actors, and Roger Hammond, who has died aged 76 of cancer, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:34AMOutstanding actor of stage and screen who made his name as Bri in A Day in the Death of Joe EggThe British theatre changed for ever when Joe Melia, as the sardonic teacher Bri, pushed a seve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09AMRoyal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: You never feel the Royal Shakespeare Company is comfortable with the bard's sitcom that brought Falstaff back from the history plays by r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AMVersatile actor who for many years was closely associated with Alan AyckbournElizabeth Bell, who has died aged 71 of cancer of the oesophagus, was an accomplished and versatile act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PMActor who made her name during the early years of drama on televisionAs a captivating young ingenue in Shakespeare on stage, and Jane Austen on television, Daphne Slater, who has died aged 8…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09AMApollo, London: Lovely to see Roger Rees again, of course, but his solo turn of speeches by, and anecdotes about, Shakespeare is thin gruel for a West End stage, an after-dinner entertainmen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMClassical actor who graced the stage with decorum and stillnessAlthough perhaps best known as Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's moustache-twirling detective, on BBC radio, John Moffatt, who …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMAlmeida, London: Although Michael Attenborough's fast-paced and lucid revival edges dangerously from pagan neutrality into medieval monotone, Jonathan Pryce's Lear is a compelling …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMZany US comedian with a wise-cracking line in self-mockeryPhyllis Diller, who has died aged 95, was a raucous, zany comedian, with a special line in self-deprecation bordering on flat-out se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:39PMShakespeare's Globe, London: After ruling as the Rooster in Jerusalem, Mark Rylance returns to scenes of earlier triumphs as a comical Crookback, a childish villain of Gloucester who cloaks …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMArts Theatre, London,: The RSC is back in town, but not, this time, the Royal Shakespeare Company - it's the all too familiar Reduced Shakespeare Company, the American RSC, with an all-…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMNational Theatre, Olivier: The first thing you see is a row of tents, the encampment outside St Paul's, a world apart from the next scene, where a suited fat cat is moving like an oil s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:49AMToby Robertson, who has died aged 83, was the artistic director of the Prospect Theatre Company from 1964 to 1978, and re-established the good name and reputation of touring theatre in the U…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMSwan, Stratford-upon-Avon: As part of the ongoing World Shakespeare Festival 2012, the RSC has joined forces with the National Theatre of Mexico to tell the story of the rise of the Aztecs i…
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