Sunday, February 7, 2021
Actors, authors, musicians and Observer critics share tips for filling the after‑homeschool hours – from uplifting family films to creative apps, dance tutorials and sonic journals Conti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMThursday, January 14, 2021
The surviving member of duo Siegfried & Roy has died of cancer in Las Vegas after his magic partner died last year
German news agency dpa is reporting that illusionist Siegfried Fischbac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMTuesday, February 11, 2020
Colin Jones trained as a dancer before becoming a photographer. His pictures of Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev and Tamara Rojo are on display at the North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, until 7 M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMMonday, February 3, 2020
In what’s allegedly a record-breaking $75m deal, the Pulitzer prize-winning stage musical, with the original cast, will land at cinemas worldwide in 2021
The hit Pulitzer prize-winning mus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMFriday, December 20, 2019
Ken Dodd’s laugh riot, Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman, Lucy Prebble’s dazzling debut and ‘off-with-your kit Harington’ … revisit the hits and flops assessed by our outgoing theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMTuesday, November 12, 2019
How did a one-woman show at Edinburgh become a worldwide hit? As a book of the series is published, performers and writers ask her about inspiration, sex and guinea pigs Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMThursday, July 11, 2019
Maxine Peake and director Sarah Frankcom explore the life and art of German actor-singer Nico in a bold new production at Manchester international festival inspired by her 1968 album The Mar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMSunday, June 16, 2019
He threw flamboyant parties and created equally dazzling films and operas. A look back on the career of the director of the films Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew and the opera T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMFriday, May 10, 2019
The Globe theatre, London, kicks off its new season with Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts I and II and Henry V, performed back to back on 10 and 11 May. Photographer Tristram Kenton captured t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMMonday, May 6, 2019
As Wendell Pierce takes on the role of Willy Loman at the Young Vic in London, revisit the history of Arthur Miller’s classic play Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMThursday, February 14, 2019
A night in a cemetery, a trip to a strip club, five hours in A&E … comics relive their woeful romantic rendezvous Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSaturday, December 1, 2018
Comics discussed the president’s refusal to believe in climate change and Ivanka Trump’s use of a personal email accountLate-night hosts discussed the recent Paul Manafort revelations an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMMonday, June 11, 2018
The Band’s Visit picked up 10 awards at the celebration of American theatre, held on Sunday in New York• Band’s Visit and Harry Potter triumph in politically charged ceremony• The re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMSaturday, June 2, 2018
In this previously unseen footage from the Hicks family archive, filmed at the Laff Stop in Austin in 1991, Bill Hicks explains why children are smarter than adults. Twenty years on from the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PMMonday, May 14, 2018
Ophelia and Gertrude are the chief female characters in Hamlet but many actresses have taken on the lead role itself including Asta Nielsen and Frances de la Tour• At her Peake: Maxine’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
In The Deal, he made a gripping TV drama out of the Blair-Brown pact. Now, in his first play, Peter Morgan is taking on another clash of titans: Richard Nixon and David Frost. He talks to Ga…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48PMMonday, April 30, 2018
It was the year hippy idealism gave way to riot and struggle – with protests in Paris, tanks in Prague and black power in the US. Guardian writers pick the pivotal works from that tumultuo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
It’s a nice idea: promote the art of letter-writing by alluding to the Bard’s Romeo and Juliet. There’s only one snag in the plot, as many have been quick to point outName: Royal Mail.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PMLuhrmann's stage version of his film didn't get critics telling him to Foxtrot Oscar, but they didn't throw flowers at his feet eitherNot everyone likes Baz Luhrmann's high camp directorial …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMThursday, April 5, 2018
5 April 1921 There was a wonderful range in Mme. Bernhardt’s acting, the words hammered out and chiselled and turned into a statuesque eloquence“DANIEL” AT THE PRINCE’S THEATRELONDON…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30AMThursday, March 15, 2018
A gripping story of the Calais camp. A caper about media greed. A pair of startling dramas from Caryl Churchill. Leading playwrights choose their favourite political playsJoe Murphy and Joe …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Paul O’Grady’s family cheered him outside court. Alan Davies couldn’t get a word in over lunch. And he got Frank Cottrell Boyce by the chuckle muscle. Stars remember the brilliantly bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, March 11, 2018
The comedian on his rhubarb tea addiction, the mastery of standup John Kearns, and his love of The CorrectionsTim Key, the comedian, actor, writer and performance poet, was born in Cambridge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AMSaturday, February 10, 2018
Group seeks £3m to buy historic West End venueA group of women from the world of the performing arts has launched a campaign to buy a West End theatre with the aim of making it a venue that…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, December 17, 2017
22 November 1930 – 11 September 2017The playwright recalls the RSC founder as a man who championed public engagement with British culture while keeping his personal feelings to himself• …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM5 November 1943 – 27 July 2017The actor and playwright’s best friend recalls a 50-year bond based on their shared love of literature, letters and life in the fast lane • Howard Hodgkin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSaturday, December 9, 2017
Pygmalion is taken off the British stage ahead of the musical version, My Fair LadyThe Society of Authors has a long record of honourable service to the writing profession and its many admir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMSunday, December 3, 2017
From faking illness to binning Brexit chat, standups including Rachel Parris, Milton Jones and Phil Wang share advice on taking the hassle out of the holidaysRachel Parris: Wear something hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMFriday, December 1, 2017
Mark Thomas was moved by Bill Hicks. Tim Key loved Jackson's Way. Olivia Poulet loved Tim Key … Performers and theatre-makers pick their all-time festival favouritesIn 1988, I was performi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMFriday, November 10, 2017
The comedian released a statement regarding the claims: ‘The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly’Louis CK: laughter ends as years…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMSaturday, October 14, 2017
As a schoolboy, Harold Pinter took on bullies and fought with fascists. Later, as a playwright, he took on the entire critical establishment. Henry Woolf, who is appearing in a revival of Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54PM 
