Thursday, March 19, 2020
As venues cancel performances in the wake of the coronavirus, they are asking arts lovers to donate and book advance tickets
' Coronavirus and culture " a list of major cancellations' Corona…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2020
From West Side Story to Company, he revolutionised the musical. As the supreme lyricist and composer turns 90, Jake Gyllenhaal, Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Nathan Lane and more pay tribute C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM[SHARE]As the coronavirus causes venues to close their doors, an increase of live-streamed theatre is expected. Here are some of the shows online now or coming soon
' Coronavirus and culture " a li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM[SHARE]As majority of UK's theatres close, industry bodies say government's lack of outright ban on visiting venues leaves them unable to claim on insurance
' Coronavirus and culture " a list of m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2020
Actors, writers, technicians and others in the industry facing hardship and 'critical threat to livelihoods' following shutdowns
' Coronavirus and culture " a list of major cancellations' Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2020
Acclaimed director will take over from Jeremy Herrin at the UK touring company
Joe Hill-Gibbins has been appointed as the artistic director of the touring theatre company Headlong. He will t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2020
Dead Ringers impressionist takes lead role in stage version of bestselling book on British identity
The impressionist Jon Culshaw is to play Bill Bryson in a new stage adaptation of Notes fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Production uses hits of Welsh singer Tom Jones to tell story of the character Tom Jones in Henry Fielding's 1749 novel
Delilah, Sex Bomb and other Tom Jones hits are to be brought together i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2020
After getting a chest infection, the actor has complained about backstage facilities for actors in older theatres
The actor Britt Ekland has slammed the backstage conditions she encountered …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2020
TV co-stars compete for acting prizes at this year's theatre awards, whose nominations are led by the musicals & Juliet, Fiddler on the Roof and Dear Evan Hansen
Fleabag stars Phoebe Wal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2020
LA Dance Project In Benjamin Millepied's piece I Fall, I Flow, I Melt, mostly performed to Bach, the dancers sparkle like sun on the ocean
On the edge of the Los Angeles Arts District, the h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 23, 2020
Pasadena Playhouse, Los AngelesThe actor brings out the dark humour in Zeller's modern classic about a man with dementia, fluctuating from absurdity to despair in a heartbeat
It is more tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2020
Royal Ballet reveals adaptation of Atwood's trilogy of dystopian novels Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood and MaddAddam
The British choreographer Wayne McGregor is to stage an adaptation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2020
Unicorn theatre, LondonIn Roland Schimmelpfennig's play, three actors narrate a day in the life of a young person who uses imagination to escape a precarious existence
For his first season i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Prebble's play A Very Expensive Poison won the prize, named after the Guardian's former chief theatre critic, at the Critics' Circle awards
A Very Expensive Poison, Lucy Prebble's ambitious …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM[SHARE]Two American shows that explore adolescent anxiety have been propelled by young online communities in a digital blizzard of streams, fan art and animatics
Schoolboys hunch over laptops in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Ian Shaw plays his actor father in West End play about the troubled production of Spielberg's first blockbuster
When Robert Shaw was filming the blockbuster Jaws, the actor's young son came…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2020
Gatiss to play ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley, in his version of Charles Dickens novella
He has long written Christmas ghost stories for television and now Mark G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Keep track of the shows at the sprawling arts extravaganza beneath Waterloo Station in London. This page will be updated throughout the festival
Until 1 FebruarySimon David's autobiographica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2020
The IT Crowd actor will star as the green-living Barbara in a stage adaptation of the popular 70s sitcom
Katherine Parkinson is to star in a new stage version of the 1970s sitcom The Good Li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2020
Casting call goes out for film version of the Roald Dahl classic, led by Matthew Warchus, who staged RSC's smash hit
The announcement of a casting call for children aged nine to 11, "no tall…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2020
A Dog's Tale, written by cat-loving playwright Poppy Hollman, tells the story of a British institution and has a canine/feline rap battle
Tom Hooper's extravagant blockbuster may have given …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2020
There are more than 1,000 shots in George Romero's classic horror movie. Can a band of actors, armed with video cameras and Barbie dolls, recreate it?
A winding road. Two bickering siblings …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AM[SHARE]Friday, January 10, 2020
Musical will premiere in London in September with new story and 'hugely witty' lyrics
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has created a new version of Cinderella with Killing Eve scriptwriter Emera…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2020
LIVR allows subscribers to catch up on theatre in 360-degree virtual reality. How does it compare with the fringe experience?
I'm having a beer and enjoying an Edinburgh fringe show from the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM[SHARE]Friday, January 3, 2020
Little Angel theatre, LondonComposer Barb Jungr and director Samantha Lane serve up a characterful take on a Scandinavian folktale, with lashings of puppetry and song
There are so many Snow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 2, 2020
Little Angel Studios, LondonA chick finds its feet in this gentle puppet adaptation of the popular book, aimed at children aged two to five
'Winter is long," sighs the baby penguin on stage.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 31, 2019
London's eight-week underground arts fest returns to Waterloo and the South Bank in January. Here's a dozen picks to get started …
James McNicholas: The Boxer30-31 January
The former Beast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM[SHARE]Monday, December 30, 2019
Who will have audiences on the edge of their seats in the new year? Laurie Kynaston, Rosie Sheehy, Michelle Tiwo and Sadie Clark are among a dozen dazzling talents to watch
One of the unifor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PM[SHARE]Friday, December 20, 2019
The Game of Thrones actor will play Nina in the adaptation by Anya Reiss, directed by Jamie Lloyd
Emilia Clarke is to make her West End theatre debut in a new production of Chekhov's The Sea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2019
Guardian's outgoing chief theatre critic 'thrilled' that best play award will carry his name in recognition of 48 years' service to drama journalism
A prestigious theatre award for the best …
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