Friday, January 31, 2025
Faithfull’s casting in Chekhov’s Three Sisters in 1967 caused a perfect storm, yet she held her own against the vastly more experienced cast including Glenda Jackson. It was the start of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMMonday, January 20, 2025
The Oscar winner stars in the German director’s production of the Chekhov classic where ‘everything is open to interpretation’
How does one stage Chekhov? His plays, embodying symphoni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMFriday, January 17, 2025
The remarkable actor symbolised a radical new generation to her husband Laurence Olivier’s theatrical establishment
• Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95•…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMMonday, January 13, 2025
Sophocles’ classic about the bitter pursuit of justice – now revived by Daniel Fish – reveals fresh truths each time
Why do we so rarely see Sophocles’ Electra? John Burgess, in a gu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMTuesday, January 7, 2025
The Nigerian Nobel laureate’s story of a royal servant condemned to kill himself after his master’s death has lost none of its enigmatic appeal
Sheffield is in luck. The Crucible theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMTuesday, December 17, 2024
Our Evenings follows an actor through 60 years of treading the boards and holds up a mirror to how society has shapeshifted
Alan Hollinghurst’s remarkable new novel, Our Evenings, is many …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMFriday, November 29, 2024
Having worked his magic as director of the Almeida theatre, the gifted Goold is bound for greater glories: the National had better watch out
Rupert Goold, as director, has made the Almeida t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMMonday, November 18, 2024
A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny
Great actors have alw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThursday, November 14, 2024
The Hollywood star is to appear at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in Shakespeare’s late play about sorcery. But what is the secret to playing the great magician?
I have one thing in common with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMWednesday, November 13, 2024
With a remarkable knack of bringing history to life on stage and screen, West honed his craft with devotion and delight• Timothy West, star of stage, screen and television, dies aged 90•…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMThursday, November 7, 2024
The 1895 comedy has been staged with age-blind and all-male casts and even David Suchet as Lady Bracknell. Now reinvented again, at the National Theatre, the trick is to be seriously funny
I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMMonday, October 7, 2024
His gangster Hitler in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui turned him into a star but from his earliest roles the actor had an unforgettable expressive force
• Rossiter interviewed by the Gua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMFriday, October 4, 2024
I was 16 when I became obsessed with Look Back in Anger. Now, in a double bill with Roots at the Almeida, both dramas’ eternal truths are clear
John Osborne and Arnold Wesker had a lot in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMMonday, August 26, 2024
A £15m, four-storey space in Liverpool is to be dedicated to the man once known as Professor Yaffle Chuckabutty. Let’s hope it will delve as deeply as he did into comedy’s infinite vari…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMMonday, August 19, 2024
West joined a starry cast for script-in-hand readings of Christopher Marlowe’s complete works in Canterbury. The resulting films are frustrating
On paper, it sounds a fine idea: to film al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMMonday, August 5, 2024
As he hits an extraordinary landmark, the playwright relives his first drama, which made him £30, and recalls bouncing back from the stroke that left him desolate and devoid of ideas
It is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00AMMonday, July 29, 2024
Samuel Beckett’s groundbreaking play is back again, this time starring Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati. Its tragicomic take on existence may match our cultural moment
Godot keeps on coming.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMMonday, July 22, 2024
In hospitals around the UK, InterAct provides bespoke readings tailored to patients’ tastes. Practitioners explain how they benefit too
In 2000, the theatre director Caroline Smith nursed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMWednesday, July 10, 2024
More than 250 works by 40 stage talents are on display in London for an impressively wide-ranging event that supports the Theatre Artists Fund
A couple of years ago, two fine actors, Nancy C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMTuesday, June 25, 2024
A welcome glimpse of what is playing beyond Britain, this year’s programme includes a deeply moving drama of migrant jeopardy and an intriguing Three Sisters
The Venice Biennale is always …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMMonday, May 20, 2024
Set for revival at the RSC, this perfectly structured revenge comedy has an earthy vitality that no aristo or scholar could have created
I have a question for those theatrical luminaries (an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMFriday, May 10, 2024
The theatre director, now teaching at Oxford after years running the RSC, thinks The Two Gentlemen of Verona is perfect for a young cast to argue over. We go into rehearsals
Which is Shakesp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMTuesday, April 2, 2024
Griffiths, who has died aged 88, explored the conflict between reform and revolution in plays and scripts from the film Reds to dramas such as Occupations, The Party and Comedians
Of all the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
One of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century, Bond – who has died aged 89 – confronted audiences with ‘the crisis in the human species’
Edward Bond, who has died aged 89, was a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMSunday, March 3, 2024
London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – are solo shows the most successful?
Dickens…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMMonday, February 19, 2024
Eugene O’Neill’s mighty drama, returning to the West End with Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson, has drawn generations of stage greats and casts its spell with a story we can all recognise…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:02PMMonday, February 12, 2024
Sean Mathias has reimagined his 2021 production of the tragedy as a movie, inventively using Windsor’s Theatre Royal and capturing McKellen’s subtle performance
How best to film a stage …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMThursday, January 18, 2024
Ian McKellen follows in the footsteps of David Warner and Antony Sher as he takes on a character who has been played as wittily jovial and cruelly cunning
When asked why he had never played …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMWednesday, January 10, 2024
Party punch-ups, brides in disguise, simmering family rancour … playwrights have cordially invited audiences to some nightmarish nuptials
There are myriad plays about marriage. Far fewer a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMFriday, January 5, 2024
Best known for writing Tom and Viv, Hastings made his debut as a teenage dramatist in the 1950s. Now, his vivid ‘young man’s play’ Don’t Destroy Me is back
We watch old movies. We re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMWednesday, December 13, 2023
One of the great postwar theatre directors, Blakemore – who has died aged 95 – had a vast range and was a formidable writer
It is sadly ironic that the death of Michael Blakemore, at the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM 
