Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Award-winning wigmaker who was always in great demand for Broadway musicals, West End shows, film and televisionPatti LuPone’s second-act wig for the 1979 Broadway production of Evita is s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Channing, who has died aged 97, starred in Hello Dolly! and Thoroughly Modern Millie, and had a genius for characterThornton Wilder, having seen Carol Channing in Hello Dolly!, the 1964 Broa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMSunday, May 29, 2016
Teacher, choreographer and popular judge on the BBC’s Come DancingAlthough Peggy Spencer’s life revolved around the ballroom, she never thought of herself as a dancer or choreographer; s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AMThursday, June 18, 2015
When Napoleon’s defeat was retold at Philip Astley’s Amphitheatre in 1824 – complete with handsome equine stars, orchestra and explosions – it dazzled audiences and set the pattern f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:28AMThursday, June 4, 2015
Good fight direction can make all the difference to the credibility of war scenes in both drama and dance. Here’s how two current productions – Shakespeare’s King John and Rosie Kay’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:55AMMonday, March 2, 2015
From All My Sons to The Crucible and beyond, the great playwright captured America’s financial, as well as existential, desperationArthur Miller called The American Clock, which premiered …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:21AMWednesday, October 1, 2014
The Bards scripted end-of-play dance is a loose, chaotic and robust revival of energy to reward the audience Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:44AMFriday, July 18, 2014
Sondheim's The Ladies Who Lunch was the defining song of Elaine Stritch's life. With two classic performances, delivered 30 years apart in London, she brought down the house From Sondheim to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AMMonday, July 7, 2014
Soon to appear in film form with Meryl Streep as the Witch, Sondheim's plainest musical blends adult stories with grim fairytales to spellbinding effect Into the Woods' sex isn't censored fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PMSaturday, May 24, 2014
As the RSC's heroines season continues, explore theatre's tradition of wisecracking, swashbuckling, roaring girlsThere isn't a surviving copy of the 1590 first edition of The Life of Long Me…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:59AMSaturday, April 26, 2014
How do site-specific theatre companies pick the magical venues to host their elaborate productions? Veronica Horwell tours London to find the stories behind Venice Preserv'd and The Drowned …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AMThursday, March 20, 2014
From Liberace candelabras to fiery breeches, the theatre's Cumbrian-made candles shed a unique light on its showsThe candles at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse couldn't be more simple and elegan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:08AMSunday, March 9, 2014
Derek Jarman is remembered as an innovative film-maker and artist but his stage work is key to his career – even his own residence was a performanceDerek Jarman wandered into theatre, as h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:40AMMonday, December 16, 2013
Oscar-winning actor who played threatened heroines for Alfred Hitchcock in Rebecca and SuspicionIt was hard to cast the lead in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 193…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:49AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Vaslav Nijinsky's brief career and doomed existence is tackled with angry unsentimentalityVaslav Nijinsky was almost immobile at the last moment of his real life. Only his expressive hands m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMSunday, October 16, 2011
Award-winning costume designer who dressed Judy Garland and Diana Ross and oversaw the Oscar red carpetNow that television talent contests are gussied up to Vegas standards, it's less easy t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMThursday, January 27, 2011
Innovative costume designer for stage and screen, she won an Oscar and three TonysTheoni V Aldredge, who has died aged 88, could and did do anything with clothes, on Broadway stage or film; …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:08PMFriday, December 31, 2010
Veronica Horwell salutes a meticulous and magical survey of balletWhen I reached the final chapter of Jennifer Homans's history of ballet, I knew that, sadly, it would come to dominate not t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMFriday, November 19, 2010
Veronica Horwell on the ballet company that redefined fashionThe story conventionally goes that Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes landed with a crash on the Paris stage in 1909 and cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM 
