Thursday, June 4, 2020
Prolific playwright acclaimed for her work at the Royal Court and the RSCThe varied and prolific career of the playwright Louise Page, who has died of cancer aged 65, was a rarity in the Bri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMMonday, May 25, 2020
German dramatist best known for his 1963 play Der Stellvertreter (The Representative) about the Catholic church and the HolocaustIt is rare nowadays for a playwright to trigger public contro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMThursday, April 23, 2020
Playwright whose comedy There’s a Girl in My Soup broke West End records and became a film starring Peter Sellers and Goldie HawnThe actor and playwright Terence Frisby, who has died aged …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMWednesday, March 25, 2020
US playwright and librettist best known for Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ragtime and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de LuneOf the several outstanding contemporary male dramatists whose work ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMWednesday, March 4, 2020
Box-office fortunes have been built on lampooning amateur dramatics’ cliche and incompetence, yet these theatres have had the last laugh
A popular idea of am-dram is that the play goes wro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMWednesday, February 26, 2020
Amdram has a colourful history on the British stage, from ‘little theatres’ in the early 1900s to today’s programmes at the National
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMFriday, February 21, 2020
Prolific character actor on stage and screen, from Shakespearean classics to Friday Night Dinner and CasualtyAlthough she became one of the most loved and reliable of character actors on sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMFriday, February 7, 2020
Writer for stage, film and TV and screen whose experience as a soldier gave a passionate intensity to scripts including The Charge of the Light BrigadeSeveral of the playwrights who transfor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PMSunday, December 29, 2019
American composer and lyricist best known for Mame, Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles
The composite image of a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, who has died aged 88…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMThursday, December 26, 2019
Stage and screen actor who was a West End stalwart, became a film star in the 1950s and then a TV sitcom favourite in the 70s and 80s
Tony Britton dies aged 95
In a career spanning six decad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMWednesday, December 11, 2019
Playwright and screenwriter best known for the 1980 film classic The Long Good FridayAlthough Barrie Keeffe, who has died aged 74, wrote a long list of stage plays that fed into, and off, ea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMFriday, November 8, 2019
The unthinkable has happened. Michael Billington has called it a day on the night job as he passes his 80th birthday and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThursday, July 11, 2019
Creator of the stage musical Annie, he wrote the lyrics and directed the show when it opened on Broadway in the 1970s
While being far more than a one-hit wonder, Martin Charnin, who has died…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMWednesday, July 10, 2019
Veteran actor admired for his roles as ‘Sir’ on stage in The Dresser, the freak-show owner in the 1980 film The Elephant Man and Sandy Thomas in TV’s EmmerdaleFreddie Jones, who has di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMMonday, April 22, 2019
Intuitive actor with a magnetic stage presence and a voice that could rasp like sandpaperJohn McEnery, who has died aged 75, was an intuitive actor in the abrasive style of Nicol Williamson,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
It mesmerised Proust, terrified Homer Simpson and gave us the Hunchback – Guardian critics celebrate Paris’s gothic masterpiece at the heart of the modern imagination
As Notre Dame Cathe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AMWednesday, January 30, 2019
‘Old school’ theatre producer behind successes such as Stones in His Pockets, Waiting for Godot and No, No NanetteThe image of the West End theatre producer has changed radically in the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMMonday, December 3, 2018
Actor and director who rescued the Open Air theatre in Regent’s Park, London, in the early 1960sDavid Conville, who has died aged 89, gave the air of being a patrician stage director and m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMSunday, November 18, 2018
Actor with a remarkable stage presence admired for leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal CourtJennie Stoller, who has died of cancer aged 72, was an outstanding acto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMFriday, August 24, 2018
Director who developed regional theatre in the Midlands and north of EnglandJohn Harrison, who has died aged 94, was a key figure in the British regional theatre of the 20th century and the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMMonday, July 30, 2018
Actor best known for his roles in the TV series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Colditz and I, ClaudiusNever on the front cover, but always somehow familiar, Bernard Hepton, who has died aged …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
Dramatist and screenwriter who enjoyed success with Stevie, Breaking the Code and The Gathering StormThe dramatist and screenwriter Hugh Whitemore, who has died aged 82, was an accomplished …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMMonday, April 30, 2018
Founder member of the Old Vic company who lit up the London stage in the 1960s and 70s and starred in the TV series The Main ChanceJohn Stride, who has died aged 81, was a golden boy of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMWednesday, March 21, 2018
As Andrew Lloyd Webber celebrates his 70th birthday, Michael Coveney looks back at the work and legacy of a composer whose work
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01PMTuesday, March 13, 2018
When I took my mother to see Ken Dodd at the London Palladium in the 1970s, she was banging her head against
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMMonday, March 12, 2018
Comedian with an endless desire to make people laugh known for his tickling sticks, Diddymen and marathon stage performancesThe last great “front-cloth” comic of our times, and the last …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Actor who took the role of Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, the groundbreaking 1956 play by John OsborneThe actor Kenneth Haigh, who has died aged 86, was the original Jimmy Porter in Joh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AMMonday, January 22, 2018
John Barton, who died last week aged 89, was the godfather of the Royal Shakespeare Company. The director’s sonnet classes formed the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMSaturday, December 9, 2017
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 07:36AMSunday, October 22, 2017
Stage and screen actor who was admired for her roles as Helene Hanff in 84 Charing Cross Road and Mrs Honeychurch in the 1985 film Room With a ViewThe versatile and accomplished actor Rosema…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMMonday, October 16, 2017
Veteran actor best known for playing John Aubrey in Brief Lives, Fagin in the stage version of Oliver! and a late role in Game of ThronesAs leading character actors go, Roy Dotrice, who has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM 
