Tuesday, 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 09:36AMFriday, September 29, 2017
Expert supporting actor equally at home on stage and screen‘Benjamin Whitrow has never given a bad performance,” said Laurence Olivier, who employed the actor in his National Theatre com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Actors who nap on stage, ecstatic dances, ravishing arias, lovers swamped in sand … Jan Fabre’s epic in a Belgrade conference centre is an endurance testThe centrepiece of this year’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMMonday, September 25, 2017
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AMTuesday, September 19, 2017
Forty years ago, establishing the Theatres Trust provided the impetus to revitalising the crumbling West End Theatres and ensure their futures. Michael
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
After rising through the ranks of UK theatre early in his career, director Peter Brook worked around the world before moving to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Peter Hall, who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960 and moved the National Theatre into its new South Bank premises in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMFriday, September 1, 2017
Playwright and director who scored an international hit with The Knack and pushed the boundaries of community theatreThere were two distinct, equally significant, phases to the career of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
Singer, actor and Broadway star who reinvented herself on the cabaret circuitThere are few musical theatre careers that divide as sharply into two parts as did that of Barbara Cook, who has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMWilliam Hoyland was a distinctive and forceful actor whose career ranged across 50 years, first as a member of Laurence Olivier’s National
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMSaturday, July 8, 2017
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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12PMSunday, July 2, 2017
Poet, dramatist, visionary and pamphleteer whose muse was fuelled by a witty and beautiful angerHeathcote Williams, who has died aged 75, was a unique and brilliant writer – poet, dramatis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMThursday, May 25, 2017
Contemporary reboots of the great works of world theatre aim to ‘reclaim them for our time’. But is something being lost along the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWednesday, May 10, 2017
Experimental writer, theatre director and improviser, he was one of the strangest people in BritainKen Campbell, who has died suddenly aged 66, was one of the most original and unclassifiabl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMDaisy Campbell’s version of Robert Anton Wilson’s cult book harks back to the counterculture era of conspiracies, hallucinogenic drugs and sinister ritualsThe counterculture strikes back…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
Theatre director and founder of the English Shakespeare Company whose 1980 production of The Romans in Britain led to an obscenity trialThere was nothing timid or compromised about the work…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMSunday, April 9, 2017
Stage and screen actor best known for his role in the TV series The Jewel in the CrownThe only unexpected thing about the wonderful actor Tim Pigott-Smith, who has died aged 70, was that he …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMMonday, March 27, 2017
Author of This Sporting Life whose raw, realistic plays and novels reflected on family, atonement and the north-south divideDavid Storey, who has died aged 83, was an unusual literary figure…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMFriday, March 17, 2017
Actor who made her name with Joan Littlewood and went on to play the nosy neighbour in the 1980s sitcom Fresh FieldsNot many performers have appeared in The Archers on radio, starred opposit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMThursday, March 16, 2017
Declan Donnellan is sitting on a sofa in the north London apartment he shares with his Cheek by Jowl designer and life
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Distinctive supporting actor on television, stage and filmTony Haygarth, who has died aged 72, was a salt-of-the-earth Liverpudlian actor who became a familiar face on television in series s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMFriday, January 6, 2017
Actor whose unpredictability never undermined his electrifying talentNicol Williamson, whose death of oesophageal cancer at the age of 73 has been announced, was arguably the most elect…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42PMThursday, December 29, 2016
Dancer and actor of exceptional versatility, grace and vivacityNot many performers can claim to have danced the Queen of the Wilis in Giselle at Sadler's Wells, raised her eyebrows at Benny …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
Actor whose compelling presence inspired new works by Samuel Beckett and made her a chilling nanny in The Omen“I could have easily have become a nun, or a prostitute, or both,” said Bill…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMVeteran stage and screen actor who played Harry Grout in Porridge and Maester Aemon Targaryen in Game of ThronesPeter Vaughan, who has died aged 93, was one of the most distinctive and menac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM 
