The play Rossum’s Universal Robots clearly belongs to the 1920s but its satirical take on the meeting of humans and machines is all too relevant today Not many plays introduce a new word t…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:12AMA new exhibition is devoted to the visual flair of a debonair playwright whose tastes are almost impossible to define Noël Coward was the epitome of style. Fittingly that is the subject of …
Linked From The Guardian at 03:54AMThe late actor took on Brecht, Falstaff and panto and will be remembered for her collaborations with Joan Littlewood Peter Bradshaw on her film career Fame is a funny thing. Barbara Windsor …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:03PMHarwood’s witty tribute to actors’ endurance, with its echoes of King Lear, is likely to be his permanent claim on posterity I last saw Ronald Harwood, who has died aged 85, at Harold Pi…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:03PMThe giant street party has been cancelled. But there are still plans to celebrate the theatre that wowed young crowds, championed black playwrights and conjured finales from Italian cuisine …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:32PMOur series ends with a passionate play about gender politics and women’s rights that still rings true When Elizabeth Robins’s play was first produced in 1907, it was billed as “A Drama…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06PMJames’s rich dialogue and clashing-cultures theme make his country-house play worthy of a renewed offer Henry James had a love-hate relationship with the theatre. He had boyhood dreams of …
Linked From The Guardian at 01:24AMThe Peter Pan author caught Hitchcock’s eye with a Hebridean ghost story about the intensity of mother-son relationships Read the rest of our Forgotten plays series I have neglected Scotla…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:12PMA drama in which the spirit of Jonathan Swift haunts a seance and an astonishingly brief update of the Oresteia confirm the poet’s remarkable skills as a playwright Few plays are more forg…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:03AMShe has given unforgettable performances in Shakespeare, Chekhov and Shaw over her extraordinary 70-year career. Where’s this great actor’s damehood? The concept of the classical actor i…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:54AMShe has played cops, rockers, monarchs and murderers. As Helen Mirren turns 75, we celebrate her astonishing career – and remember her letter to the Guardian that led to questions in parli…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:12AMThe critics howled derisively but this challenging story of the violence lurking beneath society’s surface was a game-changer Where does it all begin? Is there a moment that marks a radica…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:42AMReckord’s unflinchingly honest social document pinned down the flaws in a UK education system that consigned an underclass to a dead-end future Why are there so few good plays about school…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:36PMThe collapse of the 1968 protests left this incisive political dramatist searching for answers – and his response delved brilliantly into the dilemmas of revolution Aside from Comedians (1…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:12PMIt’s time to accept artists know more about art than politicians. Without a proper plan, the industry will be decimated Dear Oliver Dowden, You presumably heard Boris Johnson, when asked a…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:18AMThe writer unleashed her gift for black comedy to excoriate British attitudes to property and possessions in this sprightly drama Caryl Churchill is rightly admired for many qualities: her f…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:36PMThis magnificently honest play about the Shelleys and Byron’s summer of sexual experimentation raises difficult questions about the cost of utopian aspirations Howard Brenton’s output is…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:03PMAcclaimed actor whose dazzling career included memorable roles in Alien, Chariots of Fire and The Lord of the Rings Ian Holm, who has died aged 88, was a brilliant actor in all media whose c…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:48AMA Caribbean-set ‘play of revolutionary dreams’ acquires a chilling new relevance when protests confront the legacy of colonialism Although I admired its ambition, I was sceptical about T…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:54AMOur series on forgotten theatre classics continues with Wertenbaker’s stylish dissection of Thatcher-era morality I recently caught on BBC Four a repeat of Andrew Marr’s History of Moder…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:48AMOur new series on lost theatre classics begins with an exceptional play about the dashed hopes of a middle-aged Jamaican woman When the theatrical lockdown ends, I suspect there will be a te…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:54AMHe was our ‘greatest theatrical architect’, the creator of 150 magnificent buildings that delighted crowds from Glasgow to Blackpool to London. On the centenary of his death, we celebrat…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:36AMA lengthy 2017 interview, to be streamed online, shows the acting great opening up about her craft and sharing priceless memories One of the many tantalising shows lost to the lockdown was …
Linked From The Guardian at 10:06AMDramatists have long focused on the agonies and irritations of self-imposed or enforced isolation ‘I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space,” says Hamle…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:42AMThis is the art form that makes us feel most acutely human. We are going to need it more than ever How will society cope with the total shutdown of theatres for the foreseeable future? It wi…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:18AMA versatile master of stage, radio and TV, Hudd survived changes in popular taste through his good-hearted skill I last saw Roy Hudd, who has died at the age of 83, at a lunch organised by t…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:48PMFrom Olivier’s strangled fury to Ralph Fiennes’ Oedipal embraces, this complex political play is extraordinarily flexible ‘The tragedy of Coriolanus is one of the most amusing of our a…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:33AMTo kick off our critical tour of Europe’s cultural hotspots, Michael Billington reports on thrilling theatre in a post-slump Greece – from a minimalist Doll’s House to Beckett like he…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:03AMThe playwright’s new work has been seen as a departure from his intellectual stock-in-trade. But look deeper, and passion has always been present What kind of writer is Tom Stoppard? In co…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:54AMThe Royal Shakespeare Company has vowed to drill the Bard’s rhythms into its actors – but our alienation from his language runs deeper ‘Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced i…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:03AMThe former RSC director had a stellar career, seeing the depth in derided plays and restoring the Histories to their rightful stage I was saddened to hear of the death of Terry Hands at the …
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