828 stories by "Guardian Staff"
22 April 1963 " 16 August 2021The comedian recalls more than 30 years of friendship with a warm and generous writer and performer whose standup sets left audiences helpless with laughter
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22 March 1930 " 26 November 2021The actor on the American composer and lyricist who changed musicals, and whose warmth and generous spirit were equally present in the theatre and at home
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Boris Johnson says government is in talks with composer, who is 'surprised' to hear of the proposed pilot
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The award-winning Kneehigh theatre company has announced it is closing down. Revisit its past hits including Rapunzel, A Matter of Life and Death and The Tin Drum Continue reading...
Leading artistic directors including Ivo van Hove, Shanta Thake and Thomas Ostermeier reflect on their nations' treatment of the arts during Covid. Introduction by Susannah Clapp
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Actors, authors, musicians and Observer critics share tips for filling the after‑homeschool hours " from uplifting family films to creative apps, dance tutorials and sonic journals Co…
The surviving member of duo Siegfried & Roy has died of cancer in Las Vegas after his magic partner died last year
German news agency dpa is reporting that illusionist Siegfried Fischbac…
Colin Jones trained as a dancer before becoming a photographer. His pictures of Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev and Tamara Rojo are on display at the North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, until 7 M…
In what's allegedly a record-breaking $75m deal, the Pulitzer prize-winning stage musical, with the original cast, will land at cinemas worldwide in 2021
The hit Pulitzer prize-winning music…
Ken Dodd's laugh riot, Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman, Lucy Prebble's dazzling debut and 'off-with-your kit Harington' … revisit the hits and flops assessed by our outgoing theatre critic
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How did a one-woman show at Edinburgh become a worldwide hit? As a book of the series is published, performers and writers ask her about inspiration, sex and guinea pigs Continue reading...
Maxine Peake and director Sarah Frankcom explore the life and art of German actor-singer Nico in a bold new production at Manchester international festival inspired by her 1968 album The Mar…
He threw flamboyant parties and created equally dazzling films and operas. A look back on the career of the director of the films Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew and the opera T…
The Globe theatre, London, kicks off its new season with Shakespeare's Henry IV Parts I and II and Henry V, performed back to back on 10 and 11 May. Photographer Tristram Kenton captured the…
As Wendell Pierce takes on the role of Willy Loman at the Young Vic in London, revisit the history of Arthur Miller's classic play Continue reading...
A night in a cemetery, a trip to a strip club, five hours in A&E … comics relive their woeful romantic rendezvous Continue reading...
Comics discussed the president's refusal to believe in climate change and Ivanka Trump's use of a personal email accountLate-night hosts discussed the recent Paul Manafort revelations and Do…
The Band's Visit picked up 10 awards at the celebration of American theatre, held on Sunday in New York' Band's Visit and Harry Potter triumph in politically charged ceremony' The red carpet…
In this previously unseen footage from the Hicks family archive, filmed at the Laff Stop in Austin in 1991, Bill Hicks explains why children are smarter than adults. Twenty years on from the…
Ophelia and Gertrude are the chief female characters in Hamlet but many actresses have taken on the lead role itself including Asta Nielsen and Frances de la Tour' At her Peake: Maxine's sta…
In The Deal, he made a gripping TV drama out of the Blair-Brown pact. Now, in his first play, Peter Morgan is taking on another clash of titans: Richard Nixon and David Frost. He talks to Ga…
It was the year hippy idealism gave way to riot and struggle " with protests in Paris, tanks in Prague and black power in the US. Guardian writers pick the pivotal works from that tumultuous…
It's a nice idea: promote the art of letter-writing by alluding to the Bard's Romeo and Juliet. There's only one snag in the plot, as many have been quick to point outName: Royal Mail.Age: 5…
Luhrmann's stage version of his film didn't get critics telling him to Foxtrot Oscar, but they didn't throw flowers at his feet eitherNot everyone likes Baz Luhrmann's high camp directorial …
5 April 1921 There was a wonderful range in Mme. Bernhardt's acting, the words hammered out and chiselled and turned into a statuesque eloquence"DANIEL" AT THE PRINCE'S THEATRELONDON, MONDAY…
