Friday, February 23, 2018
The playwright, a passionate supporter of the health service, has set Allelujah! in a beleaguered Pennines hospitalAlan Bennett is to explore life in a Yorkshire hospital threatened with clo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30AMThursday, February 8, 2018
The star will reprise ‘superb’ performance in a transfer of Jonathan Munby’s acclaimed Chichester Festival theatre productionIan McKellen is to star in London’s West End as King Lear…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:38AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
The London production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical surpasses The Book of Mormon as it hikes premium ticket pricesPremium seats for the London production of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:59AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Owner says it is time to hand historic playhouse over to ‘next generation of dream-makers’London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket, which has staged premieres of Oscar Wilde plays and was John…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:14AMFriday, January 12, 2018
The Oscar-winning actor will play smooth lawyer Billy Flynn as the prohibition-era musical returns to the West End in MarchThe Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr is to make his British stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08AMSaturday, December 30, 2017
The star of France’s premier crime drama talks about appearing in Ivo van Hove’s bold take on A View from the Bridge and her determination to avoid typecastingIn a bar around the corner …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMFriday, December 15, 2017
The dark comedy foursome are to hit the road, taking new show to ‘all the wonderful local places in our increasingly local country’Their three forthcoming reunion specials for the BBC ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMMonday, December 11, 2017
CentrE17, LondonReggae songs, monkey puppets and a duet with a mop all add up to a surreal show for two- to five-year-olds My daughter Hilda is four, her favourite number is five and she can…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMThursday, November 30, 2017
Enda Walsh to adapt Max Porter’s acclaimed novel about love, art and bereavement for Complicité theatre company’s Irish productionCillian Murphy is to star in an Irish stage version of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMWednesday, November 29, 2017
As Lindsay Lohan prepares to make her West End debut in Speed-the-Plow, can you guess if these lines come from Mean Girls or David Mamet's plays?“I’m wearing a spinal halo.” Mean Girls…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMMonday, November 20, 2017
Eight women describe alleged cases of historic harassment against director who called for search for ‘Weinstein of British theatre’A leading director who called for a search for “the W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMWednesday, November 1, 2017
The mountains of leaflets, the WhatsApp groups, the election night panic … Harriet Harman, Tracy Brabin and David Lammy on what the play gets right – and wrong Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMTuesday, October 24, 2017
Musical comedy duo Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement reunite for a string of live dates after solo roles in Hollywood and on TVOK, band meeting! The Flight of the Conchords have announced th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMMonday, October 16, 2017
By his mid-20s he had scooped the Perrier award and landed his own TV show. But Sean Hughes never wanted to be a stadium standup. Mark Steel and Rhona Cameron pay tribute to a troubled talen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
He gave Peter Brook his big break, helped Elaine Paige conquer her fear, showed Griff Rhys Jones the joy of farce and dazzled a teenage Samuel West. They celebrate the great director who has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMA star-studded new West End production of Harold Pinter’s classic play, directed by Ian Rickson, is scheduled for 2018It was famously savaged by theatre critics who dismissed it as “puzz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMFriday, September 8, 2017
A limited number of tickets at the National Theatre’s production will allow audiences to watch the play from onstage restaurantIts intense plot may be enough to give anyone indigestion, bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMSaturday, August 19, 2017
The star of Marvel’s blockbuster is the subject of his father’s comedy show at the Edinburgh fringe. They discuss the art of getting laughs, sending Spidey back to school and finding the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMFriday, August 4, 2017
A puppet blockbuster, a Bigfoot opera and a Northern Soul dance marathon all feature in the lineup of the 70th Edinburgh festivalEdinburgh Playhouse Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMThursday, July 20, 2017
Artistic director and founder cites lack of increase in Arts Council England support for decision to leave the Yorkshire company next AprilBarrie Rutter is to step down as artistic director …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMMonday, June 26, 2017
‘There’s no coming back from this’ … After 43 years together, Helen is shocked that her husband is leaving Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM‘But if I don’t do this, what else can I do?’ … A Welsh dairy farmer reflects on the real cost of a flat white Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM‘People are petrified’ … An immigration lawyer in Manchester sees fear – and hope – in his community Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM‘I’m a warrior who’s been waiting for a war’ … Internet troll Carol whips up Brexit fury in Mansfield Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMFriday, June 23, 2017
The Guardian’s pioneering dramatic collaboration inspired by last year’s EU referendum offers characters who lay bare our complex national responses A year on from last summer’s Brexit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMMonday, June 19, 2017
As the Guardian launches Brexit Shorts, a series of online films about the seismic effects of the EU referendum, playwrights David Hare and Abi Morgan assess the UK’s political turmoilNine…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
To mark the Globe’s 20th birthday, we raid the Guardian archives to see how it has divided critics, sparked academic arguments, faced down political protests – and weathered the British …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
Lily Cole wants a green century, Girli wants a housing revolution, and Liam Williams wants to boot out the billionaire club … some of Britain’s most talented young artists spell out the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMToyah Willcox plays the time-travelling Elizabeth I in the Royal Exchange’s version of the film that caused outrage after 1977’s silver jubileeDerek Jarman’s anarchic punk film Jubilee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMFriday, May 19, 2017
Labour of Love, to be staged in the West End, is the latest political play by the dramatist who has also written two short scripts about Brexit for the GuardianMartin Freeman and Sarah Lanca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
Welsh director was best known for The Romans in Britain, which led to an obscenity trial, and for co-founding the English Shakespeare CompanyMichael Bogdanov, the bold theatre director who s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM 
