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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Royal 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 05:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Noel 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 05:37AM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2013
Noel 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 06:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Stage 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 12:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2013
Prolific 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 02:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Powerful 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 02:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Distinguished 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 07:27AM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2013
Royal 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 06:39AM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2013
Actor 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 01:13PM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2013
Old 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 07:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Noel 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 06:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Stage 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 08:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Versatile 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 12:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Passionate 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 12:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 21, 2013
One 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, SÅ‚awomir Mrozek was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2013
Royal 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.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 20, 2013
Michael 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 01:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2013
Elegant 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 10:53AM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2013
St 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 07:36AM[SHARE]Friday, July 5, 2013
Palace, 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 06:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Royal 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 01:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 23, 2013
American-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 11:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Graceful 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 01:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Olivier, 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 06:52AM[SHARE]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 06:50AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2013
Director 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 11:35AM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2013
Welsh-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 01:56PM[SHARE]Monday, February 25, 2013
Trafalgar 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…
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