328 stories by "Michael Coveney"
South African playwright whose work dealt with the injustices and absurdities of the apartheid era
Apartheid in South Africa cut both ways. The white Afrikaner playwright Athol Fugard, who h…
Veteran stage, radio and TV actor whose many notable Shakespearean roles included Falstaff and Bottom
With a portly but athletic physicality, a rich baritone voice, a bloodhound, drooping vi…
Composer, playwright and theatre director who often worked with her husband, the actor Mark Rylance
Claire van Kampen, who has died of cancer aged 71, was a concert pianist, a musical direct…
Designer of meticulous, poetically imagined sets who collaborated many times with Harold Pinter and won six Baftas
At the Almeida theatre in Islington, in 2000, Eileen Diss, the Bafta award-…
Actor who toured with the RSC, played Tess of the d'Urbervilles on radio and starred in Lorna Doone on television
She looked fragile, innocent and vulnerable on stage, but the actor Emily Ri…
A distinguished, double Oscar-winning actor whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to Harry Potter' Appreciations by Michael Billington, Peter Bradshaw and Mark Lawson' A life in pictures' H…
Highly expressive actor of impeccable technique that could encompass high comedy and full-blown tragedy
There is a huge raft of exceptional British stage actors who merit commemoration even…
Stalwart of the British stage who was also known for her film roles in Romeo and Juliet and 10 Rillington Place
The actor Pat Heywood, who has died aged 92, was a stalwart of repertory theat…
Streetwise entertainment agent and producer who worked with stars such as Shirley Bassey, Judy Garland and Joan Collins
The leading entertainment agent and producer Peter Charlesworth, who h…
Stage and screen actor who was part of the original cast of Doctor Who
On 23 November 1963 " the day after the assassination of President John F Kennedy " the actor William Russell, who has …
Authoritative stage actor who excelled at playing baddies, and took roles in TV shows such as The Crown and Coronation Street
Primarily a stage actor of good grace, authority and a fine bari…
Compelling actor who played Kevan Lannister in Game of Thrones, following a notable stage career with the RSC and in the West End
The actor Ian Gelder, who has died of cancer aged 74, was a …
Experimental British theatre director whose confrontational style often featured loud rock music, nudity, blasphemy and free dance
There was a short period in the British theatre " 1968 to 1…
Stage and screen actor known for his political campaigning, both in his choice of roles and his personal life
You might say of the actor Michael Culver that, in Harold Wilson's great phrase …
One of the most important British dramatists of the 20th century who was unafraid of taking on the establishment over censorship
The battle to remove censorship from the British stage was fo…
Playwright best known for his signature early works The Hamlet of Stepney Green and Enter Solly Gold
Although once bracketed with Harold Pinter and Arnold Wesker, his fellow East End of Lond…
American actor, singer and dancer who found fame as Anita in the stage musical West Side Story
Known for her dynamic personality and prodigious physical energy, Chita Rivera, who has died ag…
Artistic director of the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, and tireless campaigner against cuts to arts funding
From 1979 to 2004 Philip Hedley, who has died aged 85, was artistic director of t…
West End producer who worked with Cameron Mackintosh on musicals such as Les Misérables and The Phantom of the OperaWhen Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats unexpectedly became a potential w…
One of the leading postwar theatre managers and administrators who started out as a box-office clerk at the RSCRupert Rhymes, who has died aged 83 following a stroke, was one of the key Lond…
Producer of stage hits including Blood Brothers who took Medea to Broadway and served as the chairman of Everton FCBill Kenwright, who has died aged 78 after a lengthy illness, combined the …
Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles's Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on BroadwayAll good actors have stories to tell, but fe…
Stage and screen actor known for her TV roles in Drop the Dead Donkey and The Windsors, and as a star of musical theatreAlthough her first renown on television was in tough-talking professio…
Director and actor who played Auntie Muriel Weasley in Harry Potter and served as artistic director of the Unicorn theatreFor Matyelok Gibbs, who has died aged 91, 70 years in theatre and fi…
Actor and playwright best known for his 1980 stage hit Duet for One, which was later turned into a filmIt is widely accepted that most writers, most playwrights, write about bits of themselv…
