325 stories by "Michael Coveney"
Theatre producer and writer who co-founded the Belgrade international theatre festival Continue reading...
Versatile actor who combined grace with gravity in her many roles over 65 years Continue reading...
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: In the Royal Shakepeare Company's repertory pairing of these two plays, the idea is that the Great War separates the Edwardian idyll of L…
Irish actor with stage, film and television credits ranging from Ibsen to Holby City Continue reading...
Renowned Broadway star associated with the work of Edward Albee Continue reading...
Donmar Warehouse, London: Denmark's a prison in Hamlet, and so is England's body politic in this brutal two-hour, all-female compression of both parts of Henry IV. The audience ass…
One of Russia's great radical directors and founder of the Taganka theatre in Moscow, he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship after visiting Britain in 1983 Continue reading...
Theres a rich and relevant political dynamic to this years Bitef programme, which explores the roots of radicalism Continue reading...
Formidable actor who embraced equally tragedy and farce, stage and screen Continue reading...
Writer, producer and ICA head in the late 60s, he had an instinct for the cutting edgeNot many people in the arts over the past half-century in Britain had as big an influence behind the sce…
Writer, producer and ICA head in the late 60s, he had an instinct for the cutting edge Continue reading...
Dashing stage and screen actor who worked with the RSC and appeared in several American daytime television shows Continue reading...
Choosing your valedictory acting role is a tricky business. From Laurence Olivier to Sid James, here are some of the most memorable final stage appearances Continue reading...
Chichester Festival Theatre: Rupert Everett's baroque and droll, dark night of the soul in Peter Shaffer's classic relaunches the Chichester Festival Theatre. Built for a mere &…
Playwright best known for The Herbal Bed and his RSC collaborations with the director Bill AlexanderThe playwright Peter Whelan, who has died aged 82, lived a full life before turning to the…
Trafalgar Studios, London: Martin Freeman takes a sidekick's revenge on his television boss Sherlock Holmes in pipping Benedict Cumberbatch to the post as Richard Crookback; Bendy goes …
Shakespeare's Globe, London: The volatility of the Roman mob and the intensity of public debate define this swift and impassioned revival by Dominic Dromgoole: it's a perfect match of p…
Composer of the musical Once Upon a Mattress who went on to write the bestseller Freaky FridayMary Rodgers, who has died aged 83, was a composer and songwriter whose 1959 musical Once Upon a…
Actor, writer and producer at the heart of Scottish theatre who co-founded the 7:84 touring companyDavid MacLennan, who has died aged 65 after suffering from motor neurone disease, was at th…
Television scriptwriter and playwright who made his name with the smash hit tragicomedy My Night With RegThe playwright Kevin Elyot, who has died aged 62 after a long illness, is best rememb…
Shakespeare's Globe, London: You collect a small brown envelope with your ticket, and inside is a handful of golden confetti to be thrown on the wind when the two lovers celebrate their reun…
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice created the 20th century's first (and last) great rock opera with flashes of Prokofiev and Stravinsky amid its hosannas even Shostakovich was a fanUntil qui…
They've been fainting in the aisles at the Globe, due to a stomach-churning production of Titus Andronicus. Here are five more examples of the power of on-stage physical aggressionAudience m…
A founder member of the Ken Campbell Roadshow, Hoskins later made a definitive Nathan Detroit in Guys and DollsFor someone who entered the theatre by accident, Bob Hoskins preserved a sort o…
Actor and producer who played Brad Majors in the original Rocky Horror Show in 1974 and Saffy's gay dad in Ab FabChristopher Malcolm, who has died of cancer aged 67, played Brad Majors in th…
