A pilot scheme means some performances will now begin at 6.30pm. That means more time for eating, travelling and " most importantly " discussing the show 'The drama's laws the drama's patron…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AM[SHARE]The NT has a civic duty to revive woefully neglected plays from the world repertory. Doing so will make modern drama stronger Writing about the National Theatre on its 50th anniversary, I sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AM[SHARE]Versatile actor with a magnificent presence who starred in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter filmsThe word "great" is somewhat promiscuously applied to actors. But it was undoubtedl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PM[SHARE]Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen and Glenda Jackson have all redefined Shakespeare's unpredictable ruler " a role in which actors usually succeed Kenneth Branagh is set to play, and direct, King …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM[SHARE]Oliver Cotton's The Score, a new drama about Bach's confrontation with Frederick II, continues a rich tradition of plays about great composers You wait decades for a play about Johann Sebast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AM[SHARE]The Royal Shakespeare Company's former artistic director was a great theatrical leader whose legacy includes proving the history cycle is at the centre of our national story News of the deat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AM[SHARE]Not all buildings are created equal. From sightlines to acoustics to the alchemy of actor-audience rapport, the physical facts of a dramatic space are fundamental What makes a good theatre? …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PM[SHARE]Stephen Wood, who has died aged 73 after a stroke, was a press officer, administrator and former stage manager who worked closely with Alan Ayckbourn at Scarborough. He was at the National T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PM[SHARE]Return of Dario Fo and Franca Rame's political farce begs a question: can theatre ever be as potent as documentary? There is a fascinating role reversal going on in London theatre. Behind th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AM[SHARE]An all-star cast arrived in Westminster on Monday with a potted Julius Caesar, partly in hopes of elevating public discourse. It's good to have a dream … A murder took place in the speaker…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PM[SHARE]The director, who has announced he is stepping down, should be credited for opening up the organisation and steering it through the Covid crisis. Now, who's next for the NT job? Every direct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AM[SHARE]The actor and former MP, who has died aged 87, displayed courage and a sharp mind, on stage and in politics Glenda Jackson, who has died aged 87, had a career unmatched by any of her contemp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AM[SHARE]Playing in the vast ancient amphitheatre, imaginative new productions of Euripides and Aeschylus find fresh nuance even in this huge space How best to stage the great Greek classics? The fas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]A blend of pageantry, procession, music and mystery, with many private moments to savour A coronation is pure theatre. But how does one review it when there is so little to compare it with? …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02PM[SHARE]A new revival of The Circle is a reminder of a dramatist who smuggled vital messages into broad crowdpleasers Never trust what dramatists say about themselves. Noël Coward spent decades d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM[SHARE]Actor, archivist of the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, and director, with a long career in theatre, film and televisionThe actor and director Murray Melvin, who has died aged 90, had a rich …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM[SHARE]Thirty directors from all over Europe converged on Greece for a showcase of its fizzing new talent that even included a play about the Nazis by Tony Kushner. What did they learn on this five…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]There are invigorating versions of Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma! and Cabaret in London " and some enticing new dramas coming " yet theatre risks being cut off from its past David Hare has argued…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM[SHARE]He presented himself as a message-free entertainer but, 50 years after his death, it is time to reconsider the variety of the great playwright's work Anniversaries offer a chance for reappra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:17AM[SHARE]Dramatist and screenwriter whose best-known stage play, Alpha Beta, is a scorching study of marriage and morality As a passionate lover of football, in particular of Liverpool FC, Ted Whiteh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM[SHARE]It was a box-office hit directed by John Gielgud and created turmoil on stage and off. Now, the 1964 Broadway staging has inspired The Motive and the Cue, a new play by Jack Thorne In 1964 R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PM[SHARE]Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran battle it out in the Almeida's new production of a poetic drama whose ambiguity is enthralling Tennessee Williams's old bus keeps on running. The Almeida's produ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PM[SHARE]Pitting the capital against the regions is a cynical political ploy and the Arts Council's cuts are a catastrophe for new writing " as well as the entertainment industry The resignation of R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Costumes, props, posters and archive footage all feature in an exhibition that leaves you itching to see some shows again Weave your way round the new exhibition Re:Imagining Musicals at the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM[SHARE]An immense task awaits the Royal Shakespeare Company's new artistic directors who must attract top talent, prioritise verse-speaking and combine classic repertory and contemporary drama It i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55PM[SHARE]The whodunnit starring Saoirse Ronan is a fun spoof but tinkers with history and never captures the unique way Agatha Christie's play fascinated audiences in the 50s The smell of greasepaint…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:49PM[SHARE]Mike Bartlett's 2014 play anticipated a constitutional crisis, while playwrights including Shakespeare and Chekhov have shown how traumatic a transfer of power can be What does the future ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM[SHARE]The monarch was sympathetically depicted by dramatists and at a 1999 production of Oklahoma! her eyes lit up when she recalled her own theatrical outings "I've never been fond of the theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AM[SHARE]Michael Frayn's comedy is not just extremely funny but also acknowledges the fragile artifice of order " in theatre and the world beyond All plays, wrote critic John Lahr, are dated. He mean…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AM[SHARE]The two titans of modern drama were both cricket obsessives. What if they had faced the fast bowlers together? Playwright Shomit Dutta explains why he made it happen " with darkly comic dram…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM[SHARE]An actor of innate tenderness and grace, Warner had a theatre career of two halves, each with superb performances at the RSC I have never forgotten my first sighting of David Warner, who has…
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