270 stories by "Andrew Dickson"
If Shakespeare, not Marlowe, had been fatally stabbed as a young man would we even remember him? As the 450th birthdays of both playwrights approach, Andrew Dickson makes…
His hallucinogenic new show takes the audience up the Amazon and to the centre of their own consciousnesses " the latest work from an auteur who has constantly redefined theatreBroadway has …
Stepping in to play Romeo for Kenneth Branagh at a couple of days' notice, followed by the razzamatazz of Tristan Tzara? Fox says it's like ice skatingIt sounds like an actor's fantasy, cros…
Our How We Staged Shakespeare series ends with the celebrated actor explaining why he keeps coming back to the much-misunderstood role of Shylock in The Merchant of VeniceThe Merchant of Ven…
The actor and theatre-maker had such a good time playing Malvolio in Shakespeare's comedy that he wrote a whole show for himIn the mid-90s, I acted in a production of Tom Stoppard's Rosencra…
One of the hardest things about doing Shakespeare? Making sure the comedy is actually funny, says the director who transported his early play to the jazz ageYou see some Shakespeares so ofte…
Designer Nick Ormerod on how he brought Shakespeare's ancient Britons into the 20th century for Cheek by Jowl's production of CymbelineDesigning for Cheek by Jowl is very pragmatic. We're a …
After touring Hamlet in 1980, the actor succumbed to the 'worm of doubt' " but a job playing Shakespeare's quick-witted hero forced him to face his anxietyI'd been on a world tour of Hamlet,…
It began as a Broadway afterparty for guests including Monica Lewinsky. Now, the Good Wife star is taking his confessional one-man show to Edinburgh, with a sappy songbook that runs from Liz…
Goold's wife Kate Fleetwood was cast alongside Patrick Stewart in his Soviet-styled 2007 production " the 'luckiest' show the director has worked onI was in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2006, abou…
Theatre Royal PlymouthJames Graham's gimlet-eyed play gives both sides of 70s anarchism and shows there's still plenty to get angry aboutUnemployment is sky-high and a Tory government is ben…
The opera singer played the jealous general opposite Imogen Stubbs and Ian McKellen in a 1989 RSC version. He remembers the play as a crushing experienceOver the years, people have asked me …
When he played Bolingbroke in a 1960s Prospect production, West discovered a play divided between his character and the king " and learned that McKellen is a white-wine actor while he's defi…
The Donmar Warehouse chief on directing a darkly witty drama about our destiny as a nation " and why it reminds her of The West WingIn 2006 and 2007, the RSC decided to do a Complete Works s…
Verdi was 80 when he finished turning Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor into a comic opera. Gatti's 2012 production aimed to draw out its tendernessGiuseppe Verdi was in his late 70s and …
Lesley Manville as a post-punk shepherdess, Juliet Stevenson in pinstripes and a forest of silk … the designer behind the RSC's As You Like It in 1985 explains his approach to the playsWhe…
From Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev to the opium hallucination scene in La Bayadère, artist Mark Wallinger talks about how ballet had him hooked from an early ageI first saw Margot Fonte…
After early success writing for the National Theatre and for Alan Partridge, Marber's career stalled. As he returns with two plays, he talks about how Lewes FC, Turgenev and an escape from c…
First staged a year after she killed herself, 4.48 Psychosis was called Kane's suicide note. As a new opera version opens, the team behind the play's Royal Court premiere look back " and her…
Spymonkey are sticking the knife into Shakespeare, by putting every poisoning, bear attack and stabbing on stageA woman lies on a tomb in a deathlike slumber, rose petals scattered all aroun…
Henry V is a play about war yet we only see two conflicts " and the way the characters do combat tells us plenty about them, says fight director Terry KingIt's one of the simplest stage dire…
For the BBC series, Eyre took Shakespeare's histories out into the country they portrayed, shooting on location to give a broad vision of EnglandShakespeare's history plays are all about con…
His name may not appear in the credits, but the playwright has inspired some unlikely renditions of his great worksIn this 1940 episode of Dave and Max Fleischer's classic cartoon, the pipe-…
Jonathan Pryce had never seen Hamlet on stage " and thought Olivier's film version was mannered. But the violent death of his father prompted him to take on the Dane, and radically rethink t…
Whether his plays were performed on a whaling ship, up a redwood tree or by a burlesque dancer, the pioneers had a particular fondness for the BardIn May 1831, the French political thinker A…
