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An army of arts bloggers is posting internet reviews on subjects from grand opera to soap opera - instant, global and free. US newspapers have begun to ditch their reviewers as digital alter…
Versatile character actor who played a host of matronly roles on stage and screen
Ahead of tonight's Tony theatre awards, we look at the shows that are rocking New York, from a searing drama to classic revitalised musicals
Aren't we doing well? Six British transfers have collected 35 nominations between them for tonight's Tony Awards. Matt Wolf assesses their chances ...
Gone With the Wind was set to be the biggest show in town. Cast member Ray Shell gives the inside story as to why it flopped so badly
While the play draws attention to a neglected theatrical master, it leaves you feeling that Frayn has been circumscribed rather than liberated by his chosen morality-play structure.
Why won't Joseph Fiennes make life easy for himself? As he prepares to star in an explosive play about paedophilia, he tells Phil Hoad why he's glad he turned his back on Hollywood
Eclectic stalwart of London's West End as director, producer and actor
His Billy Elliot musical has gone global, Kate Winslet's in his next film, and he's plotting a return to theatre. So why does Stephen Daldry need more challenges?
This month, The Birthday Party returns to the same theatre where it opened exactly 50 years ago. Slated by the critics, it nearly ended Harold Pinter's career. So how did it go on to become …
On the eve of his appearance at the HighTide Festival, Tom Stoppard talks about the state of new writing and the solitary life of the playwright
Theatrical tyro Margaret Martin has written book, music and lyrics for this new version which Trevor Nunn directs; and the result feels like a hectic, strip-cartoon account of a dated pop cl…
As her adaptation of Gone With the Wind hits the stage, Margaret Martin tells Maddy Costa why she's just like her musical's leading lady
The crazy upbringing, the success, the drink, the drugs, the four husbands. After all that, Emma Brockes expected Liza Minnelli to be a little dotty. But over lobster, endless cigarette brea…
August Wilson was the great chronicler of black America. The New Yorker's John Lahr remembers the school drop-out who wrote standing up - with a punchbag at his side
HIV, epilepsy, comas and memory loss haven't stopped Mark Ravenhill writing - in fact, they are what drive him
Paul Scofield was one of the greats of British drama. Simon Callow relives the thrill of performing with the sweet, courteous man who once called him a monster
Ed Wilson, who has died aged 60, was an actor with a distinctive style, and director of the National Youth Theatre from 1987 to 2004. He met every challenge head on.
An idiotic president loathed by the nation? Who on earth could David Mamet be referring to, asks Mark Lawson
