Friday, May 30, 2025
One year on from its triumphant opening at Troubadour Wembley Park, the musical's set, lighting, costume and video designers reveal how they souped up the 80s musical
Howard Hudson (lighting…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 14, 2025
F Scott Fitzgerald's tale of a man who is born old and grows young has become a West End smash. The team behind the musical tell its success story in reverse " from Olivier awards glory back…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Monday, November 13, 2023
Anna Scher, who has died aged 78, gave acting classes to countless young people at her north London theatre school. Gary Kemp, Jake Wood, Winsome Pinnock, Trevor Laird and Ricardo P Lloyd re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2022
They've supercharged Shakespeare, staged impossible novels and stunned with scandalous cinema adaptations. Internationaal Theater Amsterdam reveal their radical secrets
Ivo van Hove, directo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AM[SHARE]Monday, July 4, 2022
Adrian Lester stripped back Hamlet with him, Janet Suzman can still hear the audience gasp, Glenda Jackson dug deep for the director and for Frances de la Tour he was incomparable. The stars…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2022
What if Henry VIII's wives were a pop group? The makers of the smash hit recall how Catherine of Aragon was very much Beyoncé, Anne Boleyn had Lily Allen vibes " while Jane Seymour was a so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Monday, November 29, 2021
Musical theatre stars Jenna Russell, Daniel Evans and Janie Dee remember working with their hero, and the unique demands and rewards of his songs
Sam Mendes: 'He was passionate, utterly open…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PM[SHARE]Monday, November 8, 2021
'We didn't give Matilda any songs because she was shy. Then we realised: it's a fricking musical " the protagonist needs to sing!'
The Royal Shakespeare Company had this theory that a lot of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM[SHARE]Monday, September 27, 2021
'I once performed Defying Gravity at the White House within spitting distance of the Obamas,' says Idina Menzel. 'In fact, I might actually have spat on them'
I'd played with the story of Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 16, 2021
As the legendary Cornwall-based theatre company closes, the people who made its astonishing productions look back on four decades of mayhem and innovation
Mike Shepherd (founder, artistic di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Performers from the hits Hamilton, Pretty Woman and Back to the Future consider theatre's comeback and the shows they can't wait to see
We thought we'd be home for a couple of weeks when the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PM[SHARE]Monday, May 10, 2021
'Religious groups didn't like Jesus wearing a Superman shirt or the lack of a resurrection. So we told them the curtain call was the resurrection " when Jesus runs on and takes a bow'
Godspe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Bridget Christie was a bag of nerves, Suzi Ruffell played Covid for laughs and Stephen K Amos was so rusty he needed a clipboard ... top comics on the thrill of returning
Lockdown was the lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Before becoming a Hollywood star, Chadwick Boseman was a playwright. Three of his collaborators remember a gifted writer and a wise, generous friend
Chadwick Boseman dies aged 43 Continue re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2020
Horse rides in stockings, rehearsals in deep freezes, fights in string vests ... as Patrick Stewart hits 80, friends from Harriet Walter to Brian Blessed pay tribute to the great actor Conti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AM[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]Tuesday, October 22, 2019
'The sheer idea of having a stampede on stage was exciting " the bigger the risk, the bigger the payoff'
It was a surprise to get the call from Disney. Their world wasn't my aesthetic, but T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2019
As the Edinburgh festival approaches, Ed Byrne, Susan Calman, Stevie Martin and others on why their pets are friends, companions and a source of inspiration
Comedians are needy, so of course…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2019
'I wanted to write a Shakespearean scene with someone in disguise, so I went into a lesbian chatroom pretending to be a gay woman'
I was in Atlanta in 1996 with a tour of my play Dealer's Ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2019
The standup inspired Mark Thomas with his activism, opened Jack Dee's eyes and appalled Mark Steel " in the best possible way. Friends and colleagues pay tribute to Hardy, who has died aged …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2019
Stars of the West End's Pinter at the Pinter season pick works by the dramatist that changed how they thought about theatreI was wandering around my local library in Essex when I came across…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Almost 10 years after her death, Pina Bausch's company are presenting a pair of brand new creations. Veteran dancers and newer recruits discuss leaping into the worlds of Dimitris Papaioanno…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Sharing bedrooms and backstage nerves, Lazy Susan and Norris & Parker reveal the intertwined lives of the double actFreya Parker: We started out as a trio called Lebensmüde. It was such…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2018
Stars of the West End's Pinter at the Pinter season pick plays by the dramatist that changed the way they thought about theatreAs a teenager I used to quote lines from The Homecoming as if t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2018
The child stars of the West End musical rock out in a band assembled by Dewey Finn, who poses as a supply teacher. What do their own teachers make of the hit show?What can teachers learn fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2018
Stars of the West End's Pinter at the Pinter season pick plays by the dramatist that changed the way they thought about theatre Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Monday, December 4, 2017
Christmas doesn't just mean turkey, crackers and carols. Oti Mabuse has a barbecue on the beach, Alma hits the sauna, Sofie Hagen hunts for a marzipan pig and Conchita Wurst hides from a hor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 1, 2017
The mountains of leaflets, the WhatsApp groups, the election night panic … Harriet Harman, Tracy Brabin and David Lammy on what the play gets right " and wrong Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AM[SHARE]Monday, October 30, 2017
The Strictly stars, who are partners on stage and off, talk about their passion for Latin-American rhythms and rehearsals for their first West End showDarren Bennett: My parents were profess…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04PM[SHARE]Monday, October 16, 2017
By his mid-20s he had scooped the Perrier award and landed his own TV show. But Sean Hughes never wanted to be a stadium standup. Mark Steel and Rhona Cameron pay tribute to a troubled talen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Monday, September 18, 2017
'I wanted to be the first guy to use a four-letter word in a musical " but the line ended up as "krup you" instead'I was at a party with Arthur Laurents who was about to write a musical with…
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