325 stories by "Michael Coveney"
Veteran stage and screen actor who found new audiences with her roles in TV's Gimme Gimme Gimme and Friday Night DinnerIn a career stretching over seven decades, the distinctive, cut-glass c…
Broadway dance star who was one of the greatest exponents of Bob Fosse's choreographyBroadway show girls call it a layback: balancing on one foot, the other leg shoots up through 180 degrees…
Playwright, screenwriter and director who found success off-Broadway in the 1960s
Although he came to prominence in the off-Broadway counterculture melting pot of Greenwich Village in the l…
Compelling actor whose versatile career encompassed Doctor Who, James Bond and the RSC
The commanding actor Philip Voss, who has died of cancer and complications from Covid-19 aged 84, was r…
Playwright and screenwriter whose hit play, The Dresser, drew on his experiences of working with the actor-manager Donald WolfitRonald Harwood, who has died aged 85, was an indefatigably har…
Brilliant stage designer hailed for her work with the RSC and the Royal Opera HouseIn a career ranging from Peter Brook's greatest productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Marat/Sad…
Canadian actor whose shattering performance in Kiss of the Spiderwoman was one of the great turns of musical theatreThe Canadian actor Brent Carver, who has died aged 68, played only once in…
Award-winning actor who brought intensity to roles ranging from Shakespeare to feminist comedyThere was nothing hidden or mysterious about Alison Fiske, who has died of cancer aged 76; as an…
Theatre producer and chief executive of the Really Useful group who enjoyed great success with the musical MatildaEach new generation of actors and writers is buoyed, if they are lucky, thro…
Prolific playwright acclaimed for her work at the Royal Court and the RSCThe varied and prolific career of the playwright Louise Page, who has died of cancer aged 65, was a rarity in the Bri…
German dramatist best known for his 1963 play Der Stellvertreter (The Representative) about the Catholic church and the HolocaustIt is rare nowadays for a playwright to trigger public contro…
Playwright whose comedy There's a Girl in My Soup broke West End records and became a film starring Peter Sellers and Goldie HawnThe actor and playwright Terence Frisby, who has died aged 87…
US playwright and librettist best known for Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ragtime and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de LuneOf the several outstanding contemporary male dramatists whose work ha…
Box-office fortunes have been built on lampooning amateur dramatics' cliche and incompetence, yet these theatres have had the last laugh
A popular idea of am-dram is that the play goes wrong…
Amdram has a colourful history on the British stage, from 'little theatres' in the early 1900s to today's programmes at the National
Prolific character actor on stage and screen, from Shakespearean classics to Friday Night Dinner and CasualtyAlthough she became one of the most loved and reliable of character actors on sta…
Writer for stage, film and TV and screen whose experience as a soldier gave a passionate intensity to scripts including The Charge of the Light BrigadeSeveral of the playwrights who transfor…
American composer and lyricist best known for Mame, Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles
The composite image of a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, who has died aged 88…
Stage and screen actor who was a West End stalwart, became a film star in the 1950s and then a TV sitcom favourite in the 70s and 80s
Tony Britton dies aged 95
In a career spanning six decad…
Playwright and screenwriter best known for the 1980 film classic The Long Good FridayAlthough Barrie Keeffe, who has died aged 74, wrote a long list of stage plays that fed into, and off, ea…
The unthinkable has happened. Michael Billington has called it a day on the night job as he passes his 80th birthday and
Creator of the stage musical Annie, he wrote the lyrics and directed the show when it opened on Broadway in the 1970s
While being far more than a one-hit wonder, Martin Charnin, who has died…
Veteran actor admired for his roles as 'Sir' on stage in The Dresser, the freak-show owner in the 1980 film The Elephant Man and Sandy Thomas in TV's EmmerdaleFreddie Jones, who has died age…
Intuitive actor with a magnetic stage presence and a voice that could rasp like sandpaperJohn McEnery, who has died aged 75, was an intuitive actor in the abrasive style of Nicol Williamson,…
'Old school' theatre producer behind successes such as Stones in His Pockets, Waiting for Godot and No, No NanetteThe image of the West End theatre producer has changed radically in the past…
