Thursday, April 25, 2024
Hayes Theater, New York
The Tony winner is as captivating as ever as a troubled matriarch but Paula Vogel’s emotionally underpowered play often struggles to meet her level
At a performance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50PMTuesday, April 16, 2024
Acclaimed director Sam Gold will adapt the Shakespeare tragedy with new music from hitmaker and Taylor Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff
West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler and Heartstopper bre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:41AMFriday, March 15, 2024
Production of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People halted when protesters warned the audience about environmental damage
Climate change protesters disrupted a preview showing of Jeremy St…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMThursday, March 7, 2024
Stage and screen actors will take on the roles of Othello and Iago in Shakespeare’s tragedy, first Broadway staging since 1982
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are set to star in a ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMMonday, January 8, 2024
The hit 1984 film is set to become a stage show with a book from Pulitzer prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Prince’s hit film Purple Rain is set to become a Broadway musical.
The 1984 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:46AMMonday, June 12, 2023
Jodie Comer and Tom Stoppard led a big night for Brits, while J Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell triumphed in a ceremony affected by the writers’ strike
Full list of winners
Tony awards 2023…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AMSunday, June 11, 2023
This year’s big winners including who picked up best actor in a play, best actress in a musical and best revival
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musicalKevin Cahoon, S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:59PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
Oscar-nominated actor will take on role that Jodie Comer played and won an Olivier award for her performance as a lawyer grappling with sexual assault
Cynthia Erivo is set to star in a big-s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMTuesday, February 7, 2023
Damien Chazelle’s Oscar-winning film will be transformed into a stage show featuring music from the same team
The Oscar-winning musical La La Land is to be transformed into a stage show.
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMTuesday, November 8, 2022
Veteran actor, known for his catchphrases such as ‘ding dong’, spent 80 years in the spotlight
• Peter Bradshaw on Leslie Phillips: master of raffish comedy and immortal catchphrases
L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMFriday, November 4, 2022
The multi-hyphenate was known for directing 1996’s Emma, co-writing Bullets Over Broadway and writing the book for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Writer, director and actor Douglas McG…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PMWednesday, June 22, 2022
The award-winning writer, whose hit musical originally opened on Broadway in the late 60s, died in New York City of cardiorespiratory arrest
James Rado, the award-winning co-creator of Hair,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50AMTuesday, April 12, 2022
The standup comic, also known for voicing Iago in Disney’s animated Aladdin, has died after a long illness
Comedian and actor Gilbert Gottfried has died at the age of 67.
His family announ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMWednesday, March 23, 2022
The award-winning film, with a predominantly deaf cast, will be turned into a ‘signed and sung live adaptation’
Award-winning drama Coda is set to become a stage musical.
The $10m-budget…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMWednesday, September 29, 2021
The latest take on the Shakespearean tragedy will reunite the actor with his 007 producer Barbara Broccoli
Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga are set to star in a new adaptation of Macbeth on Broad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMTuesday, March 30, 2021
George RR Martin working on production apparently revolving around the Great Tourney at Harrenhal that will also hit Australia
George RR Martin is developing a stage version of Game of Thron…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMMonday, October 19, 2020
A year on stage cut short by Covid has resulted in delayed nominations with Moulin Rouge, Jagged Little Pill and Slave Play out in front
Jagged Little Pill, Slave Play and Moulin Rouge! The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMWednesday, August 12, 2020
In an unprecedented move, postponed musical Diana will be filmed without an audience and shown on Netflix before its new official opening in 2021
A musical based on the life of Diana, Prince…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMTuesday, June 9, 2020
A statement, from names including Viola Davis and Lynn Nottage, decries the ‘white fragility’ of American theatre
A roster of more than 300 leading stage artists have signed a letter dec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMThursday, April 16, 2020
The Tony-award winning actor, who also starred in First Blood and Cocoon, has died of natural causes
‘A titan of an actor’: Brian Dennehy remembered by Clare Higgins
Veteran actor Brian …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMTuesday, March 24, 2020
The four-time Tony award winning writer of Kiss of the Spider Woman and Frankie and Johnny was a survivor of lung cancer
Coronavirus – latest US updates
Coronavirus – latest global upda…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMMonday, March 9, 2020
The writer’s 1968 play was seen as groundbreaking for prioritising gay characters and their stories
Mart Crowley, whose play The Boys in the Band was a hit in the late sixties, has died a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMThursday, July 25, 2019
Oscar winner has been removed from a production of a one-woman show where she played Katharine Hepburn
Faye Dunaway has been fired from a Broadway-bound production of the one-woman play Tea …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMThursday, May 16, 2019
The Pershing Square Signature Center, New York
A reliably accomplished performance from the Oscar winner isn’t enough to add weight to an uneven tale with a thudding twist
There are a numb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMThursday, October 4, 2018
Pair will play the couple during the 2008 primaries in Hillary and Clinton with the character of Obama referred to as ‘The Other Guy’Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow are set to play Hilla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PMFriday, December 8, 2017
Actor Kathryn Rossetter claims that the actor repeatedly groped her while the pair worked on a 1983 production of Death of a SalesmanAnother claim of sexual harassment has been aimed at Dust…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMMonday, July 31, 2017
The Pulitzer prize winning writer and star of stage and screen, known for performances in The Right Stuff and Bloodline, died at his home in KentuckyPlaywright, director and actor Sam Shepar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMFriday, January 8, 2016
Peter Bradshaw and Benjamin Lee join Xan Brooks for our regular weekly look at the big film releases. Peter Bradshaw and Benjamin Lee join Xan Brooks for our regular weekly look at the big f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:16PMFriday, June 26, 2015
This week saw the 19-year-old Londoner become the third cinematic incarnation of Spider-Man, but what is it about British actors that says hero to Hollywood?The search for a new Spider-Man h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PMFriday, May 1, 2015
Will social media horror film Unfriended capture a new fad or end up on the scrapheap with other movies that missed the zeitgeist? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:15AMFriday, March 13, 2015
A new set of videos show the pre-teen alternately impressing and alarming in MC Hammer pants. But which is the best performance from the Oscar-nominee-to-be? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:47AM 
