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Olivier awards 2025: full list of winners

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Giant and Fiddler on the Roof were among the big winners at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2025

Geoffrey Rush on Pirates, Pinter and pugs: ‘Just be happy we evolved on this bit of rock’

The Oscar winner answers your questions about playing everyone from Peter Sellers to the Marquis de Sade, his home town of Toowoomba and new care-home horror The Rule of Jenny Pen

The Guardian - UK · Mar 27, 2025

‘Cocaine is classless ... everyone’s at it’: Danny Dyer on fame, aliens, love and male violence

He went from Harold Pinter’s protege to barely scraping a living to roaring success in Jilly Cooper’s Rivals. With the release of his new film Marching Powder, he talks about his journey from national joke to national treasure

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2025

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Jared Harris: ‘I didn’t like what my family had in mind for me’

INTERVIEW: The ‘Mad Men’ actor speaks to Louis Chilton about his new production of ‘Hamlet’ at the RSC, reinventing himself in the US, and the ‘extreme’ response to his theatrical comeback

The Independent UK · Feb 10, 2025

National Theatre’s shift from repertory plays risks ‘eroding culture’, says David Hare

Playwright calls for return to theatre’s founding vision and to stop ‘angling for West End’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 6, 2025

Ben Elton: ‘I fancied Olivia Newton-John. It’s all right to say that about a third cousin, right?’

The standup talks about tensions behind the scenes of Blackadder, his Wiggles movie that never happened and his opinions on hecklers

The Guardian - AU · Dec 14, 2024

Eileen Diss obituary

Designer of meticulous, poetically imagined sets who collaborated many times with Harold Pinter and won six Baftas

The Guardian - UK · Nov 24, 2024

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Danny Dyer is a Bafta winner: How Rivals woke audiences up to the TV hardman's acting talent

The Cockney actor has spent his life written off as a ‘geezer’ but with a Bafta award now under his belt, he’s showing how good he really is

Evening Standard · Nov 19, 2024

The importance of freeing Earnest – without bursting Oscar Wilde’s ‘delicate bubble of fancy’

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

The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2024

The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade review – comic novel or conceptual art project?

The author’s alter ego is on a quest to uncover the life and work of his playwright idol in this whimsical debut

The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2024

‘“Mad” Frankie Fraser told me how to get someone to talk’: how we made The Shadow Line

‘The psychopath is terrifying. The scene where he almost drowns a cat held the record for complaints for a while. But there is a humanity to the show, too’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2024

Is the theatre interval becoming a thing of the past?

Lasting Covid impact and need to attract audiences behind move to performances running straight through

The Guardian - UK · Aug 18, 2024

The Birthday Party – Pinter’s strangeness reframed

Director Richard Jones tries to capture the menace felt by the play’s first audiences, but the result is overmannered

The Guardian - UK · Aug 18, 2024

The Birthday Party review – Jane Horrocks hosts in a house of horrors

Inviting macabre surrealism and terror by torchlight on to a brown 1950s set, Richard Jones leaves room for interpretation in Pinter’s early play

The Guardian - UK · Aug 9, 2024

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The National (Scotland) · Jul 28, 2024

Mark Brown: Here's my biggest picks for this year's Fringe

IT’S that time of year again, when many a well-heeled Edinburgher departs for three-and-a-half weeks in Provence, renting out their home for the…

The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2024

‘It’s been a mad old journey’: Danny Dyer on family, royalty and his tough guy image

Danny Dyer is working-class actor with royal blood in his veins, a tough guy in a pink dressing gown, a tearaway who’s embraced family life… He talks about where it all went right

Evening Standard · Jul 10, 2024

Danny Dyer reveals he suffered a ‘major panic attack’ after blanking on Broadway stage

The actor was cast in Harold Pinter’s Celebration at London’s Almeida Theatre, before it transferred to New York’s Lincoln Center in 2001

The Independent UK · Jun 27, 2024

Indian author Arundhati Roy wins this year’s PEN Pinter Prize

Award comes two weeks after Indian officials allowed prosecution of Roy on terror charges over comments made 14 years ago

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The Guardian - UK · Jun 27, 2024

Arundhati Roy wins PEN Pinter prize amid prosecution threat over Kashmir comments

The announcement comes two weeks after Indian officials granted permission to prosecute the writer over comments she made 14 years ago

The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2024

The Guardian view on the right to fail in the arts: a principle that must be upheld

Editorial: Not every great work of art is an instant hit – just look at Stephen Sondheim’s Tony-winning Merrily We Roll Along

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2024

Actor Lia Williams on playing Paula Vennells: ‘I think she’s more shallow than malicious. She created her own set of truths’

The actor on starring in a new play about sexual harassment, her portrayal of the Post Office’s Paula Vennells, and the playwright closest to her heart

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2024

The week in theatre: Long Day’s Journey Into Night; The Lover/The Collection; The Divine Mrs S – review

Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson shine as dysfunctional parents in Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play, David Morrissey brings a bold new register to Pinter, and April De Angelis takes on Sarah Siddons

The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2024

‘This is more than a #MeToo drama’: Jez Butterworth on his new play – and punching Harvey Weinstein

The playwright reveals how his clashes with the sexual predator haunt the most disturbing scenes of The Hills of California, his latest Olivier-nominated play about teenage singing sisters trying to make it big. Warning: contains spoilers

The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2024

The week in audio: Serial season 4: Guantánamo; Hidden Treasures: The Dumb Waiter, Traitor; Dial F for Football – review

The grandaddy of podcasts reassesses the US terrorist detention camp; a rerun of Pinter and Potter plays is not to be missed. And at last, a genuinely funny new radio comedy…

The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2024

The Lover/The Collection review – Pinter plays psychological games

Bourgeois boredom is pervaded by fantasy and betrayal in these one-act plays with an astute cast including David Morrissey and Mathew Horne

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