Sunday, March 17, 2024
Experimental British theatre director whose confrontational style often featured loud rock music, nudity, blasphemy and free dance
There was a short period in the British theatre – 1968 to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMWednesday, March 13, 2024
Stage and screen actor known for his political campaigning, both in his choice of roles and his personal life
You might say of the actor Michael Culver that, in Harold Wilson’s great phras…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
One of the most important British dramatists of the 20th century who was unafraid of taking on the establishment over censorship
The battle to remove censorship from the British stage was fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMSunday, February 25, 2024
Playwright best known for his signature early works The Hamlet of Stepney Green and Enter Solly Gold
Although once bracketed with Harold Pinter and Arnold Wesker, his fellow East End of Lond…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMFriday, February 2, 2024
American actor, singer and dancer who found fame as Anita in the stage musical West Side Story
Known for her dynamic personality and prodigious physical energy, Chita Rivera, who has died ag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMTuesday, January 30, 2024
Artistic director of the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, and tireless campaigner against cuts to arts funding
From 1979 to 2004 Philip Hedley, who has died aged 85, was artistic director of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMMonday, January 22, 2024
West End producer who worked with Cameron Mackintosh on musicals such as Les Misérables and The Phantom of the OperaWhen Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats unexpectedly became a potential…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMMonday, November 6, 2023
One of the leading postwar theatre managers and administrators who started out as a box-office clerk at the RSCRupert Rhymes, who has died aged 83 following a stroke, was one of the key Lond…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMWednesday, October 25, 2023
Producer of stage hits including Blood Brothers who took Medea to Broadway and served as the chairman of Everton FCBill Kenwright, who has died aged 78 after a lengthy illness, combined the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMSunday, October 22, 2023
Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on BroadwayAll good actors have stories to tell, but …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMSaturday, October 21, 2023
Stage and screen actor known for her TV roles in Drop the Dead Donkey and The Windsors, and as a star of musical theatreAlthough her first renown on television was in tough-talking professio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AMSunday, August 27, 2023
Director and actor who played Auntie Muriel Weasley in Harry Potter and served as artistic director of the Unicorn theatreFor Matyelok Gibbs, who has died aged 91, 70 years in theatre and fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:13PMMonday, August 21, 2023
Actor and playwright best known for his 1980 stage hit Duet for One, which was later turned into a filmIt is widely accepted that most writers, most playwrights, write about bits of themselv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AMTuesday, July 25, 2023
Pioneering lighting designer with Laurence Olivier and Peter Hall at the National Theare, and later in the West EndLeonard Tucker, who has died aged 94, was one of the British theatre’s le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMThursday, June 29, 2023
American lyricist known for his work with the composer Jerry Bock on musicals such as She Loves Me and Fiddler on the RoofFor 15 years on Broadway, between 1956 and 1970, the lyricist Sheldo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMThursday, June 15, 2023
Actor who was a fearless, ferocious presence in theatre, cinema and television, then turned to politics as a Labour MPMany leading British actors have mixed art and politics, but no great ac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMThursday, May 25, 2023
Choreographer whose dance troupes were a mainstay of light entertainment television programmes in the 1960s and 70sThe influence of choreography is rarely evident in what used to be called l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMSaturday, May 6, 2023
Writer, director and script-fixer who nurtured powerful new work at the Soho theatre in LondonOn the night of the 2023 Olivier awards ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall, Adam Brace, nominated…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMThursday, March 30, 2023
Theatre director best known for his three major productions of Death of a Salesman, written by his hero Arthur MillerAs the elder son of a Texan oil millionaire, a graduate of Oberlin Colleg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMThursday, March 9, 2023
Israeli actor of stage and screen who made Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof his own
The sight of Tevye the milkman shaking his upper torso and stomping out his yearning, melodic, future subjun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:21AMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Distinguished critic who chronicled the development of British theatre through a postwar golden age
It seems extraordinary that arguably the leading actor of the past 50 years, Ian McKellen,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:35PMThursday, February 23, 2023
Actor best known for her stage work and acclaimed for her portrayal of Mary Barnes in the title role of David Edgar’s 1978 play
Patti Love, who has died aged 75, was an actor of supreme ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:56AMFriday, February 3, 2023
Writer, broadcaster, and half of the renowned cabaret act Kit and the Widow
You could easily assume that Kit Hesketh-Harvey, who has died unexpectedly aged 65, was an old-fashioned throwbac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:47AMFriday, December 30, 2022
British playwright best known for Master Class, as well as for comic novels inspired by his time in Zambia
David Pownall, who has died aged 84, was a playwright and novelist who, while never…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMFriday, November 4, 2022
Founder director of the Hampstead theatre club who brought landmark productions to the London stageJames Roose-Evans, the founding director of the Hampstead theatre club, who has died aged 9…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMWednesday, October 26, 2022
Stage designer who worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, at the National Theatre in London and numerous opera housesThe stage designer Timothy O’Brien, who has died of prostate cancer …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
Versatile actor with a long career on stage and screen, best known as the TV sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She WroteAlthough she was born in London, and retained a classic English poise…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49AMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Italian actor and co-founder of the theatre company Complicité who was admired for the physicality of his performancesThe Italian actor Marcello Magni, who has died aged 63 of prostate canc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMSunday, June 26, 2022
American actor, playwright and lyricist who co-wrote the 1960s hippy rock musical HairFor all its hippy-drippy dawning of the Age of Aquarius aspect, Hair (1967), the first theatrical rock m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMTuesday, March 29, 2022
Actor and comedian who invested her many stage and screen roles with incomparable zest and cheekThere have been few genuine clowns in theatre and television as good as Denise Coffey, who has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMSunday, March 13, 2022
Actor whose collection of stage and screen establishment figures included three TV foreign secretariesFor someone who succeeded to a baronetcy in 1971, the actor Jeremy Child, who has died a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PM 
