Saturday, March 24, 2018
The actor spoke about the end of her marriage to James McAvoy on the BBC Radio 4 showAnne-Marie Duff has spoken of the emotional impact of the end of her decade-long marriage to the Scottish…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 25, 2017
Director of theatre near fire that killed 71 people picks play about gerrymandering in 1980s as debut productionA play about a notorious social housing scandal is to be staged in a new theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 18, 2017
Actors reproduce lost world of 'Indian noir' in former art deco department store, which will afterwards become part of the Dishoom restaurant chainAmid clouds of cigarette smoke and the pung…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 11, 2017
Audience to be given food during stage version of Nigel Slater's memoirToast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger, the bestselling food memoir by Observer writer Nigel Slater, is to be brought to th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 26, 2017
Judges could not choose between shows by Hannah Gadsby and John Robins " so have given both the £10,000 first prizeFor the first time in the history of Edinburgh's festival fringe, the to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 5, 2017
Spectacular light show in New Town square has shut down smaller events and venues, say criticsIt was meant to celebrate all that the summer festival season has come to mean to Edinburgh and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 29, 2017
Rival arts organisations cry foul at award of £2m in Arts Council funding to her next theatrical venture, Wise ChildrenThe beleaguered stage director Emma Rice, who is to step down from r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 22, 2017
They were at the vanguard of political comedy. Now Alexei Sayle, Craig Ferguson and Sue Perkins are heading back to the festival, as it celebrates its 70th birthdayUnknown talents and studen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 24, 2017
Critic's play shows how the famous actor's arrest was part of the 1950s homosexual witch-huntsThe scandal that almost ended the career of Sir John Gielgud is to be brought to the London stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 17, 2017
A singalong show about the collapse of Kids Company may seem unpromising, but productions like it are already proving big hits with audiencesFor many theatregoers a big night out on the town…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]Cabaret star hopes new show based on Paulo Coehlo's work will inspire UK fansUte Lemper, the queen of dark and subversive cabaret, is known for her interpretation of the bleak songs of Kurt …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 10, 2017
TV writer Steven Moffat's demand for fewer intermissions 'does not make financial sense'Theatre and concert hall managers are mounting a fightback this weekend in defence of an endangered cu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 7, 2017
Mark Rylance's star turn as Rooster in Jez Butterworth's play owes much to the time he spent with the hard-drinking Wiltshire wild man who inspired the playwrightWhen Mark Rylance was toast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 4, 2017
Coming-of-age novel I Capture the Castle is adapted for the stageOne of Britain's most popular romantic novels, Dodie Smith's coming-of-age classic I Capture the Castle, beloved of writers i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PM[SHARE]Monday, January 9, 2017
Katherine Soper, winner of the Bruntwood prize, is at the head of a promising group bidding to break down barriersFor any British teenage girl hoping to become a playwright, the chances are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 24, 2016
Works of author and playwright once dismissed as voice of bygone era are now being brought to new audiences"Dated" and "unfashionably sedate": some of the judgments on JB Priestley's writing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 22, 2016
Competitors and coaches gave writer of Deny, Deny, Deny insights into blurred boundaries around cheating in sportOne of Britain's leading experts on doping in sport, and an adviser to a new …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 30, 2016
Former primetime TV dance troupe Second Generation reunites to relive their glory daysHigh-kicking dancers in sequinned jumpsuits, often with bowler hats or feather boas, were once a tradema…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 21, 2016
Tom Walker, creator of Jonathan Pie, says it's now time to move on from the channel that made his name Jonathan Pie, the fictional television reporter who is regularly pushed to the edge of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2016
Leonard Bernstein's hostility towards writer of musical's book almost halted project, newly released correspondence revealsIt is regularly judged one of the best musicals of all time, yet We…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 11, 2016
From Tristan and Isolde to Romeo and Juliet, star-crossed lovers are taking to the London stage. What makes the drama of thwarted desire so compelling?Whatever the temperature outside, the W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 9, 2016
Her turn in new play Peoples, Places, Things is what the critics call a tour de force: the kind remembered long after the final curtainEvery two or three theatrical seasons a performance com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 19, 2016
The makeshift stage on which A-list stars entertained migrants in Calais is now to be rebuilt in two locations, vow the two young British playwrights behind the schemeThe refugee theatre in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 27, 2016
Research reveals 73% of performers in British theatre and film are from middle-classA major academic study released to the Observer this weekend reveals the extent to which actors from relat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:44PM[SHARE]Monday, January 11, 2016
London show aims to revive the faded reputation of the versatile Cockney performer Anthony NewleyA musical about the life of singer Anthony Newley is to be made in an attempt to revive his r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 28, 2015
Bristol Old Vic show is latest theatrical production to use a gender swap to tackle stereotypesIt is the classic fairytale that has fired the imaginations of generations of young girls. But …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 21, 2015
Katherine Soper, winner of the Bruntwood prize, is at the head of a promising group bidding to break down barriersFor any British teenage girl hoping to become a playwright, the chances are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 8, 2015
Stadium-filling comedian Michael McIntyre tells Desert Island Discs of 'amazing hostility' from other comicsThe comedian Michael McIntyre has admitted to being shocked by the "hostility…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 24, 2015
As Lenny Henry prepares a major radio series on the history of black drama, we look at the triumphs " and travails " of its starsA tale long overdue, the story of the black actors, directors…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 8, 2015
Star is latest in a line of film actors to be lured by live shows When John Hannah was a young boy in East Kilbride, the son of a toolmaker and a supermarket cleaner, a future as the star of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 1, 2015
The Sick of the Fringe initiative highlights the mental health toll of Edinburgh's endurance testIn Edinburgh from Friday, audiences of festival fringe-goers will sit in the dark in venues a…
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