1,004 stories by "Chris Wiegand"
Four-time Oscar nominee reunited with James McArdle in the Almeida theatre's staging of the Shakespeare tragedy
The four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan is to make her UK stage debut as Lad…
Twenty-five years before the hard-bitten Hollywood tale Sunset Boulevard, Swanson played a small-town waitress with a dream to act
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Gloria Swanso…
AudibleEmma Thompson plays the poet and Sinead Matthews is the breathy movie star in Simon Berry's compelling audio play
Truman Capote called Sunset Tower, an art deco triumph on Hollywood's…
Flexibility and childcare are 'part of the conversation' for the team behind Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's psychological drama about motherhood
A new theatre production about motherhood and mental …
In the town where the playwright was imprisoned, a new venue for the Reading Rep company is to run a 'radical' version of The Picture of Dorian Gray
A new theatre is to open in Reading this …
The artistic director looks back at a year of crisis for the arts and ahead to a celebratory, livestreamed summer season
When Shakespeare's Globe announced its reopening plans for spring, th…
Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning film about two married actors has intriguing parallels with the play they are performing
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At the start of Death o…
Freelance performers 'forgotten' during the pandemic says top choreographer as he launches Cygnet School training programme to diversify industry
Sir Matthew Bourne, one of Britain's most su…
Part of the New German Cinema boom, Helma Sanders-Brahms' 1975 film about two actors asks if theatre still has revolutionary potential
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Grischa H…
Actors roam Madrid, springing provocative performances on passersby, in Achero Mañas's vibrant faux-documentary
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Can theatre change the world?…
The Italian auteur's debut feature spoofs experimental theatre with its tale of a group of friends launching a heavy-handed Beckettian show
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"Lif…
Alice Nutter, Simon Armitage and Maxine Peake will contribute to season offering a 'northern perspective' on how life has changed since the 1970s
A series of new plays about Yorkshire life a…
Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, standout song and dance numbers, a clever fusion of stage and cinema … that's entertainment!
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Vincente Minnelli'…
Star-studded new run of acclaimed two-hander will use four pairs of actors, with Zoë Wanamaker and Chris O'Dowd also signed up
Nick Payne's two-hander play Constellations is to be given a…
Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel will also be staged along with two children's plays as industry begins to reopen
Regent's Park Open Air theatre in London has confirmed the lineup fo…
The socially distanced 400-seat venue will stage Alice in Wonderland with contemporary Manchester songs
A new outdoor theatre in Manchester is to present productions of A Midsummer Night's D…
The mock classical actor created by Nigel Planer and Christopher Douglas scaled the heights at the RSC and the 'Nash'. Now, he's ready for a comeback
If you've ever marvelled at an actor "tr…
Jane Birkin and Geraldine Chaplin star in the French director's enthralling and perplexing drama about rehearsals for a one-off performance
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An …
The Kendal family of actors star in a story inspired by their travels around India, whose booming film industry upstages their theatrical troupe
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Spall will replace Rhys Ifans as Atticus Finch in production opening at the Gielgud theatre in March 2022
Rafe Spall is to play Atticus Finch in the West End premiere of To Kill a Mockingbir…
Reconfigured Olivier theatre will show Dylan Thomas classic in June reopening with Jack Thorne play set for Dorfman stage
The National Theatre in London is set to reopen in June with a new v…
The actors talk about applause, auditions, how they fell in love with the theatre " and the extraordinary high of delivering the perfect line
David Oyelowo and Alfred Molina have been friend…
In this stylish Japanese classic, a performer uses theatrical techniques to engineer the deaths of his enemies
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We sometimes talk of scene-steale…
Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers have provided inspiration across stage and screen, via slang-singing gangs and warring garden ornaments
Modern Toss on Shakespeare's classic romance
Sun's…
Shakespeare tragedy will be followed by The Cherry Orchard with a cast including Steven Berkoff and Jenny Seagrove
Sir Ian McKellen's return to the role of Hamlet, 50 years after he first to…
