Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Gill’s dramas of divided class loyalties such as The York Realist had a clear-eyed precision matched by his rigorous work as a directorPeter Gill, playwright who turned ordinary lives into…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:40PM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2026
The actor’s sophisticated sense of humour and natural ability to make everyone laugh were there long before her famous sitcom rolesA life in picturesPenelope Keith: the most spectacular si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Helen Hunt and Kristin Scott Thomas are leading revivals of the Russian classic whose blend of comedy and tragedy is baked into our own dramatic heritageWhat kind of play is The Cherry Orcha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Plaque installed at actor’s former home in Pimlico, central London, where he lived from the age of five to 12Laurence Olivier has joined David Garrick, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde and Noël …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45PM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2026
Over his kaleidoscopic career, the great Shakespearean was a stalwart of the RSC, co-founded a ‘rock’n’roll’ theatre company and excelled at Chekhov and PinterMichael Pennington was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2026
From the Dome of Discovery to the massive cigar-shaped Skylon, the spectacular cultural showcase was an exhilarating sight in 1951. The Tories demolished those prime exhibits yet, 75 years o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays***35 Continue read…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40AM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2026
After the death of his husband, Antony Sher, the former RSC director embarks on a quest to see every First Folio
This is really two books in one. The first part consists of the diaries writt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2026
The great Italian entertainer's plays, such as Accidental Death of an Anarchist, have not lost their power to make audiences roar with laughter while confronting injustice
In Britain we tend…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Revivals of this history play usually reflect the politics of the moment. Now a fresh RSC retelling arrives in a world of instability and fractured alliances
I have long argued that Shakespe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2026
As the writer turns 80, his masterful adaptation of the French novel is being revived at the National Theatre. It highlights his lifelong interest in political power play
I once dubbed Chris…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 7, 2026
The director, who has died aged 98, permanently changed the landscape of British theatre by creating the Young Vic " and it reflected his own energetic and ever innovative nature
Frank Dunl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 6, 2026
The Twelfth Night Reunion gathers some of the grandest names in British theatre, including Simon Callow and Stephen Fry, to explain why Shakespeare's play continues to bewitch audiences
Many…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Friday, January 2, 2026
Rattigan hoped his 1954 tale about a swindler who exploits his son's sexual allure would prove him a serious dramatist. Its scandalous story reveals much about the playwright and resonates f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 29, 2025
The self-described 'bounced Czech' created cerebral works centred by a core of genuine emotion " and always understood the ways of our world
All the best dramatists extend the frontiers of d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2025
Its 1981 New York premiere was a disaster but this told-in-reverse musical became a Tony award-winning hit with Daniel Radcliffe. The film version is a tear-jerking joy
I have made enough mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2025
In his first hit play, now receiving another starry revival, the celebrated dramatist's analysis of the American psyche is steeped in European tradition
The British theatre's long love affai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2025
His parable of collective social responsibility is a hardy classic but the Yorkshire playwright's wider legacy should not be neglected
How on earth does one sum up JB Priestley? He wrote 39 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2025
The actor best known as TV's Sybil Fawlty dazzled over five decades on stage, in roles from from Shakespeare to Alan Bennett ' Fawlty Towers actor Prunella Scales dies at the age of 93
Prune…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2025
When it opened in 1985, Les Mis got some rotten reviews. Forty years on, our writer sees it afresh and Cameron Mackintosh reflects on the show's spectacular success
So were we wrong? By "we"…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2025
The versatile star, who has died aged 96, portrayed absurdly pretentious and apparently grotesque characters with wonderful sympathy
Patricia Routledge was an actor of uncommon versatility e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2025
Following in the footsteps of Peter Hall and Katie Mitchell, Indhu Rubasingham directs an ancient epic at the National Theatre. Bacchae reveals the virtues and vices of creating a new play f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 28, 2025
Harrison's poetry and plays made an electrifying connection with readers and audiences through his use of Leeds dialect, and his ear for rhyme. Writers remember his greatness
Poet, playwrigh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 8, 2025
The tragedy's mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker's Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play's problems
I have long had mixed feelings about K…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2025
Vera; or, The Nihilists concerns a plot to kill a tsar but after Alexander II was assassinated, its London premiere was cancelled. Now receiving a rare production, it captures his conflict b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2025
The maverick behind Tom Holland's Romeo and Nicole Scherzinger's Sunset Boulevard is now stunning passersby with Rachel Zegler's Palladium balcony scene
Rarely can a balcony have caused such…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2025
Moving easily between daring new work from the likes of Jez Butterworth to lucid fresh takes on the canon and heartful musicals, Cooke is an optimal new leader' Dominic Cooke appointed as th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2025
Actor, playwright and screenwriter who was a stalwart of the National Theatre under Laurence Olivier
The actor and writer Gawn Grainger, who has died aged 87, had an extraordinary career tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 6, 2025
What's behind all the revivals of the shocking parable about terrifying McCarthyism in 1950s America? Our writer reflects on how, through the decades, each fresh production finds new meaning…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2025
Faithfull's casting in Chekhov's Three Sisters in 1967 caused a perfect storm, yet she held her own against the vastly more experienced cast including Glenda Jackson. It was the start of man…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2025
The Oscar winner stars in the German director's production of the Chekhov classic where 'everything is open to interpretation'
How does one stage Chekhov? His plays, embodying symphonic real…
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