The UK's black stars are succeeding at the American box office – but are they working there because some parts offered in the UK are off limits, while others play to stereotypes?When Resid…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMRoyal Shakespeare Company project applauds contribution to the arts of a peculiarly British institutionOn a stage in Windsor two rival groups will compete for a new national title intended t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMAfter sitcoms and serious drama, Olivia Colman is about to start West End rehearsals in a Noel Coward classic Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMAfter sitcoms and serious drama, Olivia Colman is about to start West End rehearsals in a Noel Coward classicTomorrow morning, Olivia Colman is alarmed to remind herself, she is due at the f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMStratford-upon-Avon will host an international festival as part of the 2012 Cultural OlympiadUnder a dusting of snow and a heavy load of festive lights, the town of Stratford-upon-Avon is pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMBowie's space-age fantasies will be used for the first time in showcase London performance next yearThere's a starman waiting in the sky, David Bowie sang. But he need wait in the sky no lon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMAardman's Arthur Christmas has joined a long list of UK-generated successes in the StatesA large American man sits in a swivel chair, chewing the end of a fat cigar. He is, in this hackneyed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMAnti-bullying musical to open in London next month after £20,000 investment from one-time victim Charmaine WatsonCharmaine Watson makes an unlikely theatrical impresario. At the age of 31, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThe author's stylish language will be heard once more in the movie, fifty years after he was branded as old-fashioned amid the coming of drama's angry young menThe spare, stylish dialogue of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMShakespeare scholar reveals contribution of virtuoso court lutenist Robert Johnson towards The TempestShakespeare's The Tempest was first performed at court in November 1611. Four hundred ye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMComedy has been a mainstay of the fringe for years. But now serious plays are attracting a broader range of starsFilm stars have developed a habit of venturing on to the West End stage to h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:49PMComedian who made her name on TV in the 1980s takes role in new work celebrating the teaching professionHollywood stars and the public sector are rarely mentioned in the same breath. But tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMStadium-filling comedian Michael McIntyre tells Desert Island Discs of 'amazing hostility' from other comicsThe comedian Michael McIntyre has admitted to being shocked by the "hostility" of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMI once wrote a report on Bridport's burgeoning cultural scene. Residents of the town still haven't forgiven me. Will they now?It may not be a scandal on the level of the phone hacking furore…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:14PMActors in acclaimed National Theatre play, starring James Corden, given a dressing down by Nicholas HytnerIt turns out there is such a thing as having too much fun at the theatre. As the Nat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PMMark Rylance's star turn as Rooster in Jez Butterworth's play owes much to the time he spent with the hard-drinking Wiltshire wild man who inspired the playwrightWhen Mark Rylance was toast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMExperts ask if the Bard is Britain's only exportable brand as leading organisations recruit playwright for GamesThis country may be the birthplace of Chaucer, Milton, Austen, the Brontë sis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMNottingham's Neat 11 festival opens on 26 MayIt might not seem the right time to launch an international arts festival, but Nottingham is to take this fearless step. Later this spring the ci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMVisiting the UK in tribute to her Labour leader grandfather, the Murder, She Wrote star reveals hope of capping her Hollywood career by appearing on the West End stage her mother once perfor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMFunding cuts threaten the seaside home of work by the celebrated British playwrightThreats to the future of a cherished theatre in the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough, a home of Alan A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMDame Helen Mirren, Kenneth Branagh and Jeremy Irons among actors voicing dismay at potential impact of cutsA cast of stars from the first rank of British acting talent has sounded the alarm …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMActor goes from hard-drinking cop in The Wire to hard-drinking lecturer in Simon Gray's classic playDominic West, the star of The Wire and the BBC's The Devil's Whore, is to take on one of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMTV favourite Ruby Bentall takes stage role with director who cast her mother 30 years ago in the classic comedy Abigail's PartyThe distinctive plays and films of Mike Leigh have introduced m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMThe new South Bank Sky Arts awards go into orbit with a souped-up theme tune and Anish Kapoor-designed statuettesA lunch with Lord Bragg and others to flag up the new Sky Arts collaboration …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PMObituaries of the character actor Peter Postlethwaite reveal the role played by the Everyman Theatre in his successTalent can look like a fluke. An actor with eyes that draw you in, a voice …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMDirector bows out with New Year's Eve performance of The Magic Flute at the Bouffes du NordFor lovers of Parisian theatre, the first days of 2011 have a slightly melancholy edge. On New Year…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThe likes of Helen Mirren, Imelda Staunton and Julia McKenzie show skills rather than surgery are the way to successBotox and surgical artifice are not the way for a woman to prolong a caree…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AMGazing at the theatre's extraordinary 18th-century decor, I feel a refurbished Old Vic could better serve this city's creative lifeNeil Hannon's soaring score for Bristol Old Vic's beguiling…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AMMany are riled each winter by the wealth of family shows on offer – but those open to a bit of campery may be pleasantly surprisedWhen Ian McMillan took a playful tilt at the glitter and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMAfter heart surgery and six years away from the stage, comedian Robin Williams is ready to storm Broadway with his one-man show Continue reading...
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