Monday, May 12, 2014
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice created the 20th century's first (and last) great rock opera with flashes of Prokofiev and Stravinsky amid its hosannas even Shostakovich was a fanUntil qui…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMMonday, May 5, 2014
They've been fainting in the aisles at the Globe, due to a stomach-churning production of Titus Andronicus. Here are five more examples of the power of on-stage physical aggressionAudience m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMWednesday, April 30, 2014
A founder member of the Ken Campbell Roadshow, Hoskins later made a definitive Nathan Detroit in Guys and DollsFor someone who entered the theatre by accident, Bob Hoskins preserved a sort o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMMonday, February 17, 2014
Actor and producer who played Brad Majors in the original Rocky Horror Show in 1974 and Saffy's gay dad in Ab FabChristopher Malcolm, who has died of cancer aged 67, played Brad Majors in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMWednesday, February 5, 2014
Birmingham Repertory Theatre: It is a sign of the times in the reps that you are as likely to find a revival of Alan Ayckbourn or Ibsen as a touring production of, well, a perfectly decent c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMFriday, January 24, 2014
Stage engineer and theatre consultant whose innovative use of the latest technology changed the way audiences saw playsThere was a moment in 1988 when the future of theatre suddenly loomed l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:47PMThursday, January 16, 2014
Stage and screen actor best known for his roles in Only Fools and Horses, The Vicar of Dibley and Harry PotterThe talented and idiosyncratic character actor Roger Lloyd Pack, who has died of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AMThursday, January 9, 2014
Rising star of British theatre design gifted with freewheeling, witty inventivenessOne of the emerging stars of British theatre design, Naomi Wilkinson, who has died aged 50, was unusually g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AMTuesday, December 31, 2013
Comedian and actor best known for the satirical television show Bremner, Bird and FortuneJohn Fortune, who has died aged 74 after a long illness, was a distinguished member of the Oxbridge g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:47PMTuesday, December 24, 2013
Influential comedy agent who wheeled and dealed to turn his clients into starsThe colourful comedy agent Addison Cresswell, who has died suddenly at the age of 53, changed the face of Briti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:05AMMonday, December 23, 2013
Birmingham Hippodrome: Although Snow White is really a fairytale, it has become one of the top six most popular pantomimes over the past 50 years, combining the basic Grimm story with elemen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:05AMThursday, December 19, 2013
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: JM Barrie's Peter Pan play was first performed in 1904 and his novel, Wendy and Peter, published in 1911. Ella Hickson's modern new …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
Noel Coward Theatre, London: Jude Law doesn't swagger as Henry V, he ambles. And just in time, too, as he hovers on the brink of maturity: a facially stubbled, spiritually troubled youn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AMMonday, December 2, 2013
Noel Coward Theatre, London: Jude Law doesn't swagger as Henry V, he ambles. And just in time, too, as he hovers on the brink of maturity: a facially stubbled, spiritually troubled youn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMWednesday, November 6, 2013
Stage and screen actor known for playing battle-axe aunts, village gossips and servantsWhen Mel Brooks visited the film set of Up at the Villa (2000), in which his wife, Anne Bancroft, was s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMThursday, October 31, 2013
Prolific comedy actor who worked with Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan and Hattie JacquesThe stony-faced, beaky comedy actor Graham Stark, who has died aged 91, is best remembered…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
Powerful stage and screen actor often cast as an aristocrat, king or moustachioed villainWhen the whisky flowed, according to the writer John Heilpern, the actor Nigel Davenport looked "as i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Distinguished translator of postwar German playsAnthony Vivis, who has died suddenly aged 70, was a renowned translator of postwar German plays that habitually documented mythical misery in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:27AMFriday, October 18, 2013
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: The Royal Shakespeare Company enters a new era under Gregory Doran with this decisive, intelligent and notably well-spoken revival of a chroni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMMonday, October 14, 2013
Actor who played many major Shakespearean roles on the stageFew actors played as many major Shakespearean roles as did Paul Rogers, a largely forgotten and seriously underrated performer, wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PMFriday, September 20, 2013
Old Vic, London: Strained, perverse, unfunny: in this geriatric wartime Much Ado, Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones (combined age, 158 years) unwisely extend the possibility of love'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Noel Coward Theatre, London: The Michael Grandage Company's fourth play in a season of five is a straightforward, fast and furious revival of Shakespeare's most popular comedy. It&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
Stage and screen actor who started in satirical revue and went on to become a familiar figure on television and radioNot many actors encompass political satire on the radio, comedy at the Ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
Versatile actor who brought intelligence and grace to her many roles on the Irish stageIce cool on stage, with sharp good looks and a wit to match them, Susan FitzGerald, who has died aged 6…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMWednesday, August 28, 2013
Passionate actor who commanded the stage at Glasgow's Citizens theatre and the RSCGerard Murphy, who has died of prostate cancer aged 64, was a rare sort of full-hearted actor, always on the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMWednesday, August 21, 2013
One of Poland's greatest playwrights whose most famous play, Tango, was a modern-day HamletAlthough he spent his final years in France, and has died aged 83 in Nice, Sławomir Mrozek was alw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMFriday, July 26, 2013
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: Nancy Meckler's revival of a "problem" play that always delights begins with a series of mimsy tableaux in silhouette.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMSaturday, July 20, 2013
Michael Coveney explores the work of Michael Grandage Company Futures, taking a look at the group’s response piece to The Cripple of Inishmaan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:48AMThursday, July 18, 2013
Elegant and meticulous actor whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to EastEndersPaul Bhattacharjee, who has been found dead aged 53, was one of the country's leading British Asian actors, a ke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:53AMMonday, July 8, 2013
St Peter's Church, Manchester: Kenneth Branagh hasn't played in Shakespeare for more than ten years, but his technical assurance and deceptive fluency and naturalness remain unaltered. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMFriday, July 5, 2013
Palace, Manchester: As a beautifully lit new work off the Robert Wilson derriere-garde assembly line, The Old Woman at the fourth biennial Manchester International Festival is a stunner - co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AM 
