Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Steve Coogan's blazered broadcaster promises to bring a touch of TV evangelism and hatred of speed bumps on tour next year in venues across post-Brexit UK
Alan Partridge is to embark on a UK…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM[SHARE]A performance of Walden at the Harold Pinter theatre in London was cancelled on Tuesday but all cast and crew 'remain negative for Covid' after the alert
The West End play Walden, starring G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Our series on films about theatre ends with Kermit staging a musical spectacular with the help of some famous friends
The stage on screen: read the full series
Two classic New York musicals …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Friday, May 21, 2021
Soho theatre, London, and onlineAn impressive cast " including Greg Germann via video link " deliver a revival of Lucinda Coxon's jittery examination of intimacy and exploitation
Lucinda Cox…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM[SHARE]The actor's first West End role in 10 years will be directed by Rebecca Frecknall in a bespoke recreated Kit Kat Club
Eddie Redmayne will return to London theatre, for his first West End rol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Southwark Playhouse, LondonWendi Peters seizes the role of a suburbanite who is inspired by the lunar broadcast to embark on a spontaneous trip
Two men walked on the moon in the summer of 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Twenty-five years before the hard-bitten Hollywood tale Sunset Boulevard, Swanson played a small-town waitress with a dream to act
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Gloria Swanso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 13, 2021
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 12, 2021
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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 11, 2021
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning film about two married actors has intriguing parallels with the play they are performing
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
At the start of Death o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 6, 2021
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Part of the New German Cinema boom, Helma Sanders-Brahms' 1975 film about two actors asks if theatre still has revolutionary potential
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Grischa H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Actors roam Madrid, springing provocative performances on passersby, in Achero Mañas's vibrant faux-documentary
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Can theatre change the world?…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 20, 2021
The Italian auteur's debut feature spoofs experimental theatre with its tale of a group of friends launching a heavy-handed Beckettian show
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
"Lif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 15, 2021
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, standout song and dance numbers, a clever fusion of stage and cinema … that's entertainment!
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
Vincente Minnelli'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AM[SHARE]Friday, April 9, 2021
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 8, 2021
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 6, 2021
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Jane Birkin and Geraldine Chaplin star in the French director's enthralling and perplexing drama about rehearsals for a one-off performance
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
An …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 30, 2021
The Kendal family of actors star in a story inspired by their travels around India, whose booming film industry upstages their theatrical troupe
The stage on screen: more films about theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Friday, March 26, 2021
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 25, 2021
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 23, 2021
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]In this stylish Japanese classic, a performer uses theatrical techniques to engineer the deaths of his enemies
The stage on screen: more films about theatre
We sometimes talk of scene-steale…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Friday, March 19, 2021
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM[SHARE]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…
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