Faithfull's casting in Chekhov's Three Sisters in 1967 caused a perfect storm, yet she held her own against the vastly more experienced cast including Glenda Jackson. It was the start of man…
The Oscar winner stars in the German director's production of the Chekhov classic where 'everything is open to interpretation' How does one stage Chekhov? His plays, embodying symphonic real…
The remarkable actor symbolised a radical new generation to her husband Laurence Olivier's theatrical establishment ' Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95' Joan …
Sophocles' classic about the bitter pursuit of justice " now revived by Daniel Fish " reveals fresh truths each time Why do we so rarely see Sophocles' Electra? John Burgess, in a guide to G…
The Nigerian Nobel laureate's story of a royal servant condemned to kill himself after his master's death has lost none of its enigmatic appeal Sheffield is in luck. The Crucible theatre nex…
Our Evenings follows an actor through 60 years of treading the boards and holds up a mirror to how society has shapeshifted Alan Hollinghurst's remarkable new novel, Our Evenings, is many th…
Having worked his magic as director of the Almeida theatre, the gifted Goold is bound for greater glories: the National had better watch out Rupert Goold, as director, has made the Almeida t…
A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny Great actors have alw…
The Hollywood star is to appear at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in Shakespeare's late play about sorcery. But what is the secret to playing the great magician? I have one thing in common with An…
With a remarkable knack of bringing history to life on stage and screen, West honed his craft with devotion and delight' Timothy West, star of stage, screen and television, dies aged 90' Tim…
The 1895 comedy has been staged with age-blind and all-male casts and even David Suchet as Lady Bracknell. Now reinvented again, at the National Theatre, the trick is to be seriously funny I…
His gangster Hitler in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui turned him into a star but from his earliest roles the actor had an unforgettable expressive force ' Rossiter interviewed by the Guard…
I was 16 when I became obsessed with Look Back in Anger. Now, in a double bill with Roots at the Almeida, both dramas' eternal truths are clear John Osborne and Arnold Wesker had a lot in co…
Ian McKellen plays a theatre reviewer in the 1930s in the new film adapted from Anthony Quinn's novel Curtain Call " but how accurate is it? Warning: this article contains spoilers for The C…
A £15m, four-storey space in Liverpool is to be dedicated to the man once known as Professor Yaffle Chuckabutty. Let's hope it will delve as deeply as he did into comedy's infinite variat…
West joined a starry cast for script-in-hand readings of Christopher Marlowe's complete works in Canterbury. The resulting films are frustrating On paper, it sounds a fine idea: to film all …
As he hits an extraordinary landmark, the playwright relives his first drama, which made him £30, and recalls bouncing back from the stroke that left him desolate and devoid of ideas It i…
Samuel Beckett's groundbreaking play is back again, this time starring Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati. Its tragicomic take on existence may match our cultural moment Godot keeps on coming. A…
In hospitals around the UK, InterAct provides bespoke readings tailored to patients' tastes. Practitioners explain how they benefit too In 2000, the theatre director Caroline Smith nursed he…
More than 250 works by 40 stage talents are on display in London for an impressively wide-ranging event that supports the Theatre Artists Fund A couple of years ago, two fine actors, Nancy C…
A welcome glimpse of what is playing beyond Britain, this year's programme includes a deeply moving drama of migrant jeopardy and an intriguing Three Sisters The Venice Biennale is always as…
Set for revival at the RSC, this perfectly structured revenge comedy has an earthy vitality that no aristo or scholar could have created I have a question for those theatrical luminaries (an…
The theatre director, now teaching at Oxford after years running the RSC, thinks The Two Gentlemen of Verona is perfect for a young cast to argue over. We go into rehearsals Which is Shakesp…
Griffiths, who has died aged 88, explored the conflict between reform and revolution in plays and scripts from the film Reds to dramas such as Occupations, The Party and Comedians Of all the…
One of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century, Bond " who has died aged 89 " confronted audiences with 'the crisis in the human species' Edward Bond, who has died aged 89, was a phenome…