Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Playwright and screenwriter whose hit play, The Dresser, drew on his experiences of working with the actor-manager Donald WolfitRonald Harwood, who has died aged 85, was an indefatigably har…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMSunday, August 16, 2020
Brilliant stage designer hailed for her work with the RSC and the Royal Opera HouseIn a career ranging from Peter Brook’s greatest productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Marat/S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMSunday, August 9, 2020
Canadian actor whose shattering performance in Kiss of the Spiderwoman was one of the great turns of musical theatreThe Canadian actor Brent Carver, who has died aged 68, played only once in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMFriday, August 7, 2020
Award-winning actor who brought intensity to roles ranging from Shakespeare to feminist comedyThere was nothing hidden or mysterious about Alison Fiske, who has died of cancer aged 76; as an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMTuesday, August 4, 2020
Theatre producer and chief executive of the Really Useful group who enjoyed great success with the musical MatildaEach new generation of actors and writers is buoyed, if they are lucky, thro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMThursday, 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 08:40AM 
