Friday, November 7, 2014
The Pope of Trash behind cult hits like Cry Baby and Hairspray is joining us to answer your questions in a live webchat from 1pm GMT onwards on Monday 10 November post yours in the comments…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Assembly lines meet chorus lines in the new musical Made in Dagenham, starring Gemma Arterton and based on the hit British film. Go behind the scenes at the production which opens at the Ade…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Sylvie Guillem has announced that she will present her final dance programme at Sadlers Wells in 2015. Revisit her journey from Parisian ballerina to global dance sensationJudith Mackrell on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AM[SHARE]Many of Shakespeare's lines are used in daily life but do you know which plays feature these popular expressions? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30AM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2014
Tango champions and Strictly Come Dancing favourites Flavia Cacace and Vincent Simone celebrate the golden age of American movies in their new West End show. All photographs: Tristram Kenton…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2014
Its not easy being green never mind defying gravity. See Jennifer DiNoias transformation into Elphaba for the magical musical at the Apollo Victoria theatre. Photos by Matt Crockett Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2014
Join us from 5pm GMT on Saturday 18 October 2014 for a worldwide live-stream of Forced Entertainments six-hour theatre show Speak Bitterness, staged at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin. The show is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:31AM[SHARE]After 30 years, New York City Ballet principal dancer Wendy Whelan will bid farewell to the company with a special performance on Saturday 18 October 2014. Leap back through her incredible c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM[SHARE]Disneys The Lion King celebrates its 15th anniversary at the Lyceum theatre in London on 19 October. Go behind the scenes at the award-winning and record-breaking musical Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Shakespeares matching pair of comedies, Loves Labours Lost and Loves Labours Won (better known as Much Ado About Nothing), celebrate romance in unlikely places. The plays have been reunited …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
When the former Bolshoi star Natalia Osipova danced the title role in the Royal Ballet's Giselle in January 2014, Judith Mackrell found her a revelation. 'She gives us the pulse and breath o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:53AM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2014
As John Bell announces his retirement from Bell Shakespeare, the company he founded to make Shakespeare accessible to all Australians, we take a look back at his long career treading the boa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2014
As Australia's most respected Shakespearean actor and director announces he is stepping down from Bell Shakespeare, the theatre company he founded 25 years ago, here are some of his greatest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06PM[SHARE]Royal Ballet star Natalia Osipova made her much-anticipated appearance in Kenneth MacMillans acclaimed tragic ballet Manon at Londons Royal Opera House this week, partnered by Carlos Acosta …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Laurence Olivier had plenty of wise words for aspiring performers. Mind you, so does the moderate Twitter sensation @Tips4Actors. Can you tell whose lines are whose?The book Tips for Actors …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2014
After the years most-discussed West End previews, Speed-the-Plow a David Mamet revival starring Mean Girls Lindsay Lohan has its official opening night on 2 October. Have a look at the pro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Inspired by the Young Vic theatre's acclaimed production of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, Mayday reunites Juliet Stevenson and the director Natalie Abrahami. Written by Nancy Harris, the film…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Kristin Scott Thomas and director Ian Rickson have reunited to stage Electra, the classic tragedy by Sophocles. Take a first look before the productions opening night on 1 October Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PM[SHARE]Kristin Scott Thomas and director Ian Rickson have reunited to stage Electra, the classic tragedy by Sophocles. Take a first look before the production's opening night on 1 October Continue …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2014
The Mancunian punk poet beloved of Alex Turner and Plan B is joining us for a live Q&A from 4-5pm on Tuesday 30 September so what do you want to ask him? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:20AM[SHARE]Ophelia and Gertrude are the chief female characters in Hamlet but many actresses have taken on the lead role itself including Asta Nielsen and Frances de la Tour At her Peake: Maxines stage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
"If you do crap when I come along ... I shall scream!" Novelist Michael Morpurgo drops into rehearsals for the National Youth Theatre's production of Private Peaceful, based on his 2003 book…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Melbournes fringe festival returns with several experimental and confronting pieces that arent afraid to tackle Australian politics, and deliver controversy, madness and wit in equal doses. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:47PM[SHARE]As their show The Play That Goes Wrong opens in London, the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society offer their advice on getting ahead in Theatreland Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2014
As Gillian Anderson gives her final performances in A Streetcar Named Desire broadcast by NT Live on 16 September can you tell which of these lines belong to Blanche Dubois and which are s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2014
As she plays Shakespeares sweet prince in one of 2014s most anticipated productions, take a look at the Silk stars stage career so far Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2014
With the death of Sir Donald Sinden, the British acting fraternity has lost one of its most esteemed and beloved figures. A celebrated Shakespearean actor, Sinden also appeared in more than …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2014
Shakespeare saved some fine lines for those characters drawing their last breath. Can you identify who speaks these words in their exit speeches? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2014
Pass the gazpacho: here's the first image of Tamsin Greig, dressed in a Thierry Mulger jumpsuit, as Pepa Marcos in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. The West End musical adaptation …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 7, 2014
Though Joan Rivers once said she wanted a red carpet at her funeral, the sidewalk was bare outside Temple Emanu-El synagogue on New Yorks Fifth Avenue on Sunday. Hundreds of fans waited to c…
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