Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Rob Brydon, Ai Weiwei, Lee Scratch Perry, Gillian Anderson ... comedians, artists, musicians and actors gave us a wealth of insight into their creative lives. What did we learn?Let me tell y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:15PM[SHARE]29 December 1821: Celebrated ventriloquist M. Alexandre put on an excellent show at the Minor TheatreOn Wednesday evening last we were pleased and astonished beyond measure by the extraordin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28AM[SHARE]Monday, December 21, 2015
Snowmen detectives, sporty Santas and showbiz elves … standup comics offer their best gags to sleigh them this ChristmasBeth Vyse: Why were Rudolph and Blitzen left on the shelves over Chr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 17, 2015
Take a look inside the Royal Shakespeare Company's workshops to see the outfits for Helen Edmundson's new play at the Swan theatre, starring Natascha McElhone and Emma Cunniffe Continue read…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2015
UKTV's comedy channel Gold invited amateur wits and comedians to write their own modern festive cracker gags. A public vote revealed these winners. Can you do any better?1. Why does Ed Milib…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2015
As the spy thriller Hapgood is revived at Hampstead theatre, Tom Stoppard talks about his drama of doubles and deception, and how John le Carré redefined espionage fiction by blurring the b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2015
'Tis the season to compile lists of your favourite productions of the year " let us know which ones left you spellboundAs December disappears and the new year beckons, we're remembering the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2015
The Scottish comedian is joining us to answer your questions during his UK tour, from 1pm onwards on Monday 7 December. Post them in the comments below 10.48am GMT Kevin Bridges has one of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Director Carrie Cracknell and choreographer Lucy Guerin have teamed up for a new version of Macbeth at the Young Vic starring John Heffernan and Anna Maxwell Martin. It's murder on the dance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PM[SHARE]Guardian Culture Professionals Network readers reflect on their first and favourite theatre experiencesMy first theatre memory was Schlachten! at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg in 1999.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]As Sheridan Smith takes the lead role in the Menier Chocolate Factory's Funny Girl revival, take a look at the musical's history Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM[SHARE]Monday, November 30, 2015
The bearded surrealist is joining us to answer your questions in a live webchat on Wednesday 2 December from 1pm GMT " post yours in the comments below 1.38pm GMT Appearing a little like a b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM[SHARE]Friday, November 27, 2015
As the ballet dancer makes his last performances for the Royal Ballet, he will join us for a live webchat on Tuesday 1 December " post your questions for him below 1.20pm GMT Carlos Acosta h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 26, 2015
Watch out Truffula trees! Dr Seuss's eco-fable The Lorax, about the greedy Once-ler who cuts down forests to make Thneeds, has been adapted for the stage. Here's a look at rehearsals for the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38AM[SHARE]The Irish standup on the benefits of hitting his 40s: not feeling the need to watch every Scorsese film and learning to love classical music through the Lurpak butter ad. Dara O Briain: Crow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Australian actor Hugh Jackman performs a full dress rehearsal of his stage show Broadway to Oz ahead of its opening in Melbourne on Tuesday. The all-singing all-dancing concert is a celebrat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 22, 2015
The 61st London Evening Standard theatre awards, in partnership with The Ivy at The Old Vic Theatre, saw scores of theatre and television figures converge to honour this year's work Continue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2015
Will Adamsdale's Edinburgh award-winning self-help coach Chris John Jackson returns this winter with a festive twist. Jackson's Way: The Christmas Top-Up Power Seminar! is at Battersea Arts …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Vadim Muntagirov and Lauren Cuthbertson take the lead roles in Frederick Ashton's classic ballet The Two Pigeons at the Royal Opera House in London Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:22AM[SHARE]Robert Lindsay, John Simm, Susannah Fielding and others get ready to make a great entrance in these exclusive photographs by Matt Humphrey whose company Curtain Call is producing a book of b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09AM[SHARE]To celebrate #LoveTheatreDay, four stage professionals share what they think makes theatre so special " and why it needs our support#LoveTheatreDay 2015 " liveA list of the theatres and grou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AM[SHARE]As a nude Canadian troupe challenges the attitudes of London audiences to the body, we look at uses of nakedness in contemporary dance " to unsettle, to probe and to enlighten Continue readi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 15, 2015
On stage or screen, David Tennant is a favourite with writers because of his ability to go from nerdy cop to handsome lover 'in just one moment'. Elisabeth Mahoney finds him taking yet anoth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:27PM[SHARE]Friday, November 13, 2015
The Sherlock and Spectre actor is next up in the play The Dazzle " and will answer your questions in a live webchat from 1pm GMT on Monday 16 November. Post yours in the comments below 10.00…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 2015
In a clip from his new live DVD, the Scottish comic sizes up the 'new breed of man' he meets down the gym and finds out why even fruit for breakfast is frowned upon. Kevin Bridges: A Whole D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2015
Watch the trailer for Bolshoi Babylon, which follows a year in the life of the famed Russian institution. The 2013-14 season the film covers is, however, no ordinary year: the Bolshoi's ball…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PM[SHARE]Friday, November 6, 2015
The actor-director's season of plays in London's West End opens this weekend with The Winter's Tale, starring Judi Dench, and Terence Rattigan's Harlequinade, starring Zoë WanamakerKennet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:52PM[SHARE]The writer is joining us to answer your questions in a live webchat on Monday 9 November from 1pm GMT onwards " post them in the comments below 11.19am GMT Few writers have had the chance to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 5, 2015
David Mamet's new play China Doll brings Al Pacino back to Broadway more than 40 years after his stage debut. Here are some of the screen star's appearances on the Great White Way Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 3, 2015
A German theatre company Rimini Protokoll has created a play to take apart and debunk Hilter's work Mein Kampf following the expiry of the book's copyright. Mein Kampf translates as My Strug…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Blanche McIntyre's staging of Shakespeare's farce The Comedy of Errors was deemed "near perfection" at the Globe by Michael Billington. In this clip from the DVD, out now, Matthew Needham (a…
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