Michael Blakemore
Plan your week’s theatre: top tickets
Mary Stuart flips a coin at the Almeida, Gemma Arterton becomes Saint Joan, Jack and the Beanstalk gets a Bollywood twist, and the festive spirit touches everyone from Robin Hood to Hansel and Gretel
Lyn Gardner
05, Dec, 2016 @7:00 AM
Sir Peter Shaffer obituary
Playwright best known for The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Equus and Amadeus
Lyn Gardner
06, Jun, 2016 @4:27 PM
How we made Noises Off
Patricia Routledge: ‘I kept bashing into doors and they kept bashing into me. I got through two bottles of arnica in rehearsal alone’
Interviews by Andrew Dickson
16, Feb, 2016 @7:00 AM
Lithe spirit: Dame Angela Lansbury at 90
A lifetime achievement in musical theatre acknowledges Lansbury’s prolific career spanning seven decades
Mark Lawson
16, Oct, 2015 @6:00 AM
Guarding Arthur Miller: when writers' estates say no
Theatre directors and writers’ estates do not always see eye to eye. As a new generation seeks to reinterpret Arthur Miller’s work, we lift the lid on the scandals, bans and breakthroughs
David Jays
15, Oct, 2015 @7:00 AM
Plan your week's theatre: top tickets
Patrick Marber reimagines Turgenev at the NT, the 247 festival starts in Manchester, there’s Happy Days for Beckett in Enniskillen and Ben Whishaw is at the Almeida
Lyn Gardner
20, Jul, 2015 @6:00 AM
The 10 best… stage fright sufferers
Pianist Sara Solovitch shares her fears in Playing Scared. Here are some other stars who have famously been afflicted
Susannah Clapp
26, Jun, 2015 @11:00 AM
Lord Birkett obituary
Other lives: Key figure in the world of British cinema and theatre across three decades
Humphrey Burton
18, May, 2015 @12:23 PM
Barrie Ingham obituary
Stage and screen actor versed in Shakespeare, musical theatre and television
Michael Coveney
12, Feb, 2015 @4:58 PM
David Ryall obituary
Character actor with a distinguished stage, TV and film career that included a Harry Potter cameo
Michael Coveney
28, Dec, 2014 @6:21 PM
Marian Seldes obituary
Renowned Broadway star associated with the work of Edward Albee
Michael Coveney
14, Oct, 2014 @12:28 PM
In Search of Gielgud: A Biographer's Tale by Jonathan Croall – review
Obstructions, threats and revenge – Simon Callow on the farcical race to publish the definitive life of Gielgud
Simon Callow
23, Aug, 2014 @7:00 AM
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