Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Stephen Schwartz’s musical prequel has been brought to the big screen, with Erivo’s charismatic Elphaba exerting a planetary pull over a star-studded cast
As Kermit the Frog and the Hulk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMFriday, September 27, 2024
Before she reached a new level of celebrity in the 21st century, Smith had a remarkable big-screen career, channelling her stage presence into the camera whether as Jean Brodie or her tragic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMTuesday, April 2, 2024
Dupieux’s melancholic comedy sees a disillusioned audience member pull a gun before demanding a word processor to write the actors a better play
Quentin Dupieux is one of the vanishingly s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMWednesday, November 1, 2023
Vivid portrait of the great playwright of inertia points up the contrast with his real-life romantic entanglements and daring work for the French resistance
Director James Marsh has boldly, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, May 5, 2022
Minnelli brings the razzle dazzle to a Berlin determined to ignore the gathering storm in this cinematic masterpiece
‘Still think you can control them?” Dizzied by their divinely decaden…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMWednesday, January 5, 2022
Jamila Wignot’s documentary about choreographer Alvin Ailey has absorbing testimonies and a look at his secret private life
Jamila Wignot’s documentary is a tribute to the work of the Af…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMFriday, December 3, 2021
The writer-director talks about his new film, co-starring Denzel Washington, and reveals how it felt to work without his brother, Ethan, for the first time in nearly 40 years
It might be the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMThursday, November 11, 2021
Andrew Garfield plays Rent composer Jonathan Larson in Miranda’s sugar rush of showbiz highs and lows
Lin-Manuel Miranda gives us an unashamed sugar rush of showbiz rapture and showbiz sol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, February 21, 2021
Writers and artists including Róisín Murphy, Tiffany Calver and Sigala on the art that transports them to the dancefloor during lockdown
There have been many notable nightclubs in film his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMTuesday, 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, November 29, 2017
With his weaponised dialogue and hypnotic macho characters, no writer has so relentlessly confronted the explosive issues of our times. But theatre and Hollywood are changing. As he hits 70,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMWednesday, October 11, 2017
Peake is hypnotically belligerent as an ambitious club performer trampling over prejudice and sticky carpets on the 1970s comedy circuitMaxine Peake dominates the screen as producer and star…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMThursday, September 21, 2017
This engaging documentary focuses on a couple who once dazzled audiences with their intimate dance routines but whose off-stage love turned to heartbreak The return of what is now known as S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
It’s impossible to get tickets to see Tom Hiddleston. But if the play’s being staged to raise funds for Rada, why not be less elitist, and broadcast it in cinemas?The arts world is facin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMFriday, August 11, 2017
A Baltimore girls high-school dance team boost their self-esteem while they’re busting moves in this heartfelt, feelgood documentary Stepping is a vivid and passionate style of street danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMThursday, March 9, 2017
Dancer Sergei Polunin gets a respectful and useful documentary, but we need a deeper investigation into this amazing dancer, hamstrung by his own demonsThis is a sympathetic, serviceable but…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMFriday, December 30, 2016
How better to make sense of this turbulent year than through the art and literature it has produced? Our critics choose the works that sum up the last 12 monthsIf there is one film that hold…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMThursday, December 22, 2016
This documentary about a new director’s tenure at the Paris Opera Ballet purports to tell all but offers no real insightsNot so much a documentary, more a sleek two-hour commercial for its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMSunday, November 6, 2016
At the prompting of Guardian readers, film critic Peter Bradshaw revisits Richard Brooks's 1958 adaptation, which delivers a homosexual hero paralysed with self-hatredI haven't seen Sarah Es…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMFriday, September 9, 2016
The comedian is to stand against Farage for South Thanet in the 2015 general election. But what are his guvnorment’s policies? Guardian experts question him on welfare, freedom, immigratio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20AMWednesday, July 27, 2016
Theatre is pricey and divisive but can a livestream ever capture its flesh and blood thrills? Our film critic decided to find out – by legging it out of Kenneth Branagh’s Romeo and Julie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMWednesday, June 8, 2016
Unlike the democratic experience of the Potter movies, it seems only the smug rich can afford tickets for the stage playTickets are now on sale for the new London West End stage show Harry P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58AMFriday, January 8, 2016
Peter Bradshaw and Benjamin Lee join Xan Brooks for our regular weekly look at the big film releases. Peter Bradshaw and Benjamin Lee join Xan Brooks for our regular weekly look at the big f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:16PMThis enthralling documentary reveals the extraordinary upheavals at the Bolshoi Ballet as the tip of Russia’s rage icebergOne morning in 2013, Bolshoi Ballet artistic director Sergei Filin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMFriday, August 14, 2015
The star’s understudy at the Barbican is Dwane Walcott, an excellent actor. He will deserve recognition for bravery if he has to step inThe theatre world, like the movie world, has loads o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:55PMSaturday, April 18, 2015
Anna Kendrick is extraordinary in this two-hander raking over the coals of a relationship: it’s a lean, mean, musical machine
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38PMThursday, February 12, 2015
Hilla Medalia captures ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine as he uses fancy footwork to bring together Palestinian and Jewish children Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
Younger people don’t get Sir Tom’s new play, so he’s had to rewrite The Hard Problem to make it Quite Easy. But some things just can’t be changed Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PMSunday, January 18, 2015
The comedian is to stand against Farage for South Thanet in the 2015 general election. But what are his guvnorment’s policies? Guardian experts question him on welfare, freedom, immigratio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMThursday, August 7, 2014
Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer's portrayal convulses Krapp's face with shock and repressed despair Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AMTuesday, July 1, 2014
O2 Arena, LondonEveryone wants the Pythons to do the classic stuff and so they did in a staggeringly lucrative reunion show that is unlikely to make any convertsShare your own Monty Python s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10PM 
