Friday, August 14, 2015
Bankhead’s vigour, audacity and flexibility within her range are tremendousA new comedy and the first visit to Manchester of a much-paragraphed young actress brought a large and eager audi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37AMMonday, August 10, 2015
The wealth of first-time comic talent at the Edinburgh fringe can leave those coming back for another try overlooked and overburdenedI enjoyed reading the novelist Amit Chaudhuri reminiscing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:44PMCurrently playing Antigone at the Edinburgh festival, the French actor will answer your questions in a live webchat from 12 noon BST on Wednesday 12 August – post them in the comments belo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AMJonathan Ollivier performs in Swan Lake on ANT1 TV, with Sam Archer, while on tour in Greece in 2010. Ollivier was killed in a motorbike accident on Sunday in Farringdon while en route to Lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AMSunday, August 9, 2015
The actor, who is playing Hamlet at the Barbican in London, addresses fans outside the venue after Saturday’s performance. He urges audience members not to take videos or pictures during t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25PMHe isn’t bold. He isn’t confrontational. And he once read out survey data on stage. But Nish Kumar is the hot ticket at this year’s Edinburgh festival fringeNish Kumar’s mum recently…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:39AMThe first pictures of the eagerly anticipated production of Hamlet have been released. Take a look at some of the stars of the production directed by Lyndsey Turner and designed by Es Devlin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMThursday, August 6, 2015
Acts on the fringe can change our definition of comedy and show us the funny where we least expected it. These performers rewrote the rulebookWhat does a truly innovative Edinburgh fringe sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PMWednesday, August 5, 2015
Fans of Benedict Cumberbatch – and, perhaps, Shakespeare – queue outside London’s Barbican theatre for a chance to see Hamlet. Some slept overnight to get a ticket for the opening nigh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMFriday, July 31, 2015
The feminist comedian is joining us to answer your questions in a live webchat at 1pm BST on Monday 3 August – post them in the comments below 9.56am BST In a world where women in comedy a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:08AMWednesday, July 29, 2015
Marine conservation group Sea Shepherd has released an anti-whaling video starring actor David Field. He plays a man who is shot in the back by a harpoon before being dragged to his death. S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42AMSunday, July 26, 2015
With a host of comedic talent set to appear at the Edinburgh festival fringe early next month, we asked some top names to identify the joke or moment that first tickled their funny bone…It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMThursday, July 23, 2015
From a Cobain-esque Tim Minchin to a paint-splattered Bec Hill, Steve Ullathorne’s portraits of standup comedians are as irreverent as they are intimate. They go on display at the Gilded B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMTuesday, July 21, 2015
The comedian has just written his first children’s book, and is joining us to answer your questions from 1pm BST onwards on Thursday 23 July – post them in the comments below 4.14pm BST …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AMMonday, July 20, 2015
Patrick Marber reimagines Turgenev at the NT, 247 festival starts in Manchester, there’s Happy Days for Beckett in Enniskillen and Ben Whishaw is at the AlmeidaIt’s one night only at Soh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:09AMTuesday, July 14, 2015
The comedian on how Monty Python baffled America, why he can’t function without worrying – and his struggle to say something no one else will say Your new show looks at three decades’ …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AMWednesday, July 8, 2015
Join us from 8.40pm BST on Monday 13 July for a live-stream of the performance As the Flames Rose We Danced to the Sirens, the SirensThe Flare international festival of new theatre 2015 star…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:09AMAn audience member at a Broadway play in New York is filmed climbing on stage to try and charge his phone – at a fake outlet. The footage, shot minutes before the start of Hand to God on 2…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:34AMTuesday, July 7, 2015
In the summer of 2013 the theatre company Punchdrunk transformed an old Paddington sorting office into a labyrinthine film studio full of intrigue and intimate moments. Now, a year after The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34AMSaturday, July 4, 2015
Dozens of tango dancers block one of Buenos Aires' main avenues on Friday in protest against the government's decision to close 'milongas' or tango bars, for failing to meet certain requirem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMFriday, July 3, 2015
Live from Manchester international festival, outsider comedian Liam Williams will be answering your questions on Monday 6 July from 2.15pm BST onwards – post them in the comments below 3.1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMThe star of The Office and new play The Mentalists is joining us to answer your questions at 1pm BST on Tuesday 7 July – post them in the comments below 12.18pm BST Stephen Merchant is one…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMThursday, July 2, 2015
Manchester international festival opens today with the first performance of wonder.land, with music by Damon Albarn and book and lyrics by Moira Buffini, directed by Rufus Norris. Take a clo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMMonday, June 29, 2015
Stephen Daldry, Max Stafford-Clark, Lyndsey Turner and more on the challenges and triumphs that come with staging Churchill’s workCaryl Churchill: the playwright’s finest hours Continue …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMSunday, June 28, 2015
Join us from 5pm BST on Sunday 28 June to watch four retellings of Shakespeare’s plays by the celebrated experimental theatre group Forced Entertainment. Each of the plays will be performe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:46AMFriday, June 26, 2015
wonder.land is a new musical inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It has music by Damon Albarn, lyrics by Moira Buffini and is directed by National Theatre's Rufus Norris. In the show, Lewis Car…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMTuesday, June 23, 2015
From Memory of What Could Have Been by Renato Paroni de Castro to Babel by Joshua Legge, take a closer look at the six works in Choreographics, staged by ENB at the Lilian Baylis Studio last…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMFriday, June 19, 2015
Watch an exclusive trailer for Caryl Churchill's The Skriker, made by the animator Alice Dunseath. Churchill's apocalyptic 1994 play about the eponymous shape-shifter is being revived by dir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:47AMSchool captain Michael Morpurgo is not happy about the way his pupils are portrayed and Harold Pinter’s latest play The Collection is reviewedFilming of “The Lonely Stage” in the preci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50AMThursday, June 18, 2015
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickThe American playwright’s horrifying one-act drama produces genuine palpitations and is presented alongside the rediscovered Mister ParadiseFirst produced off B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AMWednesday, June 17, 2015
Renowned Australian choreographer Sue Healey brings her show On View: Live Portraits to Sydney after being part of Melbourne's Dance Massive festival. The show blends live performance with r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AM 
