On his centenary, the veteran producer recalls adding punch to Coronation Street, bringing Brideshead to the screen and his 'turbulent' relationship with one of the acting world's greats The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AM[SHARE]The Royal Shakespeare Company survived establishment resistance and economic storms to become a powerhouse. How should it now change? What's in a name? Quite a lot, as it happens. In 1960 Pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM[SHARE]There has always been a strong affinity between acting and cricket, and my friend Alan Curtis, who has died aged 90, was a perfect example of that. He combined a long theatrical career with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM[SHARE]The actor, who has died aged 80, had a thriving screen career but was also a terrific stage star and an essential member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre company Ronald Pickup, who has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]The star's long career, from her stage debut at 15 to her film, TV and literary success, reveals a shrewd talent who has risen to many a challenge Acting must be the best rejuvenation pill o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AM[SHARE]Theatre Royal Stratford East's colourful history is documented in more than 100 boxes of material collected by actor Murray Melvin It is cheering to learn that the Murray Melvin Archive, doc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03PM[SHARE]The play Rossum's Universal Robots clearly belongs to the 1920s but its satirical take on the meeting of humans and machines is all too relevant today Not many plays introduce a new word to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AM[SHARE]A new exhibition is devoted to the visual flair of a debonair playwright whose tastes are almost impossible to define Noël Coward was the epitome of style. Fittingly that is the subject o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM[SHARE]The late actor took on Brecht, Falstaff and panto and will be remembered for her collaborations with Joan Littlewood Peter Bradshaw on her film career Fame is a funny thing. Barbara Windsor …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03PM[SHARE]Harwood's witty tribute to actors' endurance, with its echoes of King Lear, is likely to be his permanent claim on posterity I last saw Ronald Harwood, who has died aged 85, at Harold Pinter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PM[SHARE]The giant street party has been cancelled. But there are still plans to celebrate the theatre that wowed young crowds, championed black playwrights and conjured finales from Italian cuisine …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PM[SHARE]Our series ends with a passionate play about gender politics and women's rights that still rings true When Elizabeth Robins's play was first produced in 1907, it was billed as "A Dramatic Tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PM[SHARE]James's rich dialogue and clashing-cultures theme make his country-house play worthy of a renewed offer Henry James had a love-hate relationship with the theatre. He had boyhood dreams of be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AM[SHARE]The Peter Pan author caught Hitchcock's eye with a Hebridean ghost story about the intensity of mother-son relationships Read the rest of our Forgotten plays series I have neglected Scotland…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]A drama in which the spirit of Jonathan Swift haunts a seance and an astonishingly brief update of the Oresteia confirm the poet's remarkable skills as a playwright Few plays are more forgot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03AM[SHARE]She has given unforgettable performances in Shakespeare, Chekhov and Shaw over her extraordinary 70-year career. Where's this great actor's damehood? The concept of the classical actor is fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]She has played cops, rockers, monarchs and murderers. As Helen Mirren turns 75, we celebrate her astonishing career " and remember her letter to the Guardian that led to questions in parliam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AM[SHARE]The critics howled derisively but this challenging story of the violence lurking beneath society's surface was a game-changer Where does it all begin? Is there a moment that marks a radical …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM[SHARE]Reckord's unflinchingly honest social document pinned down the flaws in a UK education system that consigned an underclass to a dead-end future Why are there so few good plays about school l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PM[SHARE]The collapse of the 1968 protests left this incisive political dramatist searching for answers " and his response delved brilliantly into the dilemmas of revolution Aside from Comedians (197…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PM[SHARE]It's time to accept artists know more about art than politicians. Without a proper plan, the industry will be decimated Dear Oliver Dowden, You presumably heard Boris Johnson, when asked at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]The writer unleashed her gift for black comedy to excoriate British attitudes to property and possessions in this sprightly drama Caryl Churchill is rightly admired for many qualities: her f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36PM[SHARE]This magnificently honest play about the Shelleys and Byron's summer of sexual experimentation raises difficult questions about the cost of utopian aspirations Howard Brenton's output is mas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PM[SHARE]Acclaimed actor whose dazzling career included memorable roles in Alien, Chariots of Fire and The Lord of the Rings Ian Holm, who has died aged 88, was a brilliant actor in all media whose c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]A Caribbean-set 'play of revolutionary dreams' acquires a chilling new relevance when protests confront the legacy of colonialism Although I admired its ambition, I was sceptical about The C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Our series on forgotten theatre classics continues with Wertenbaker's stylish dissection of Thatcher-era morality I recently caught on BBC Four a repeat of Andrew Marr's History of Modern Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM[SHARE]Our new series on lost theatre classics begins with an exceptional play about the dashed hopes of a middle-aged Jamaican woman When the theatrical lockdown ends, I suspect there will be a te…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM[SHARE]He was our 'greatest theatrical architect', the creator of 150 magnificent buildings that delighted crowds from Glasgow to Blackpool to London. On the centenary of his death, we celebrate a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AM[SHARE]A lengthy 2017 interview, to be streamed online, shows the acting great opening up about her craft and sharing priceless memories One of the many tantalising shows lost to the lockdown was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Dramatists have long focused on the agonies and irritations of self-imposed or enforced isolation 'I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space," says Hamlet. H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AM[SHARE]This is the art form that makes us feel most acutely human. We are going to need it more than ever How will society cope with the total shutdown of theatres for the foreseeable future? It wi…
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