Kerry Lee Crabbe obituary Other lives: Writer and adapter of plays and screenplays including The Playboys starring Albert Finney The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2024
Tears, joy, yoga – and dreaded games: stage actors share their secrets of the rehearsal room Preparation for a play is notoriously private affair. Here five acclaimed actors and the director Richard Eyre share their experiences The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2024
Bernard Kops obituary Playwright best known for his signature early works The Hamlet of Stepney Green and Enter Solly Gold The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2024
The week in theatre: The Hills of California; Metamorphosis; Candace Bushnell: True Tales of Sex, Success and Sex in the City – review Dreams of fame trap and inspire in Jez Butterworth’s female-centred, Blackpool-set new play; Lemn Sissay takes a personal approach to Kafka; and the Sex and the City creator is full of unsurprises The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024
How working with Weinstein haunted playwright Jez Butterworth and inspired his work Highly anticipated new play is a post-#MeToo story about trials women endure to realise their dreams The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024
Joyce Edwards obituary Other lives: Photographer and landlady whose fine prints of artist tenants such as Ivor Cutler and Henry Woolf have only recently been discovered The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024
'Sex and the Waterloo & City Line': Sarah Jessica Parker hails 'exquisite' London transport system The Sex and the City star said she wanted “to be completely conversant” with the Tube Evening Standard · Jan 29, 2024
Standard Theatre Podcast: Jared Harris and Joe Cole on The Homecoming, Harold Pinter and toxic masculinity Plus our reviews of Ulster American and Cold War and the latest theatre news Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2023
The week in theatre: Infinite Life; The Homecoming; Pacific Overtures – review Chronic illness is captured to extraordinary effect in Annie Baker’s slow yet absorbing new play. Elsewhere, snarling Pinter lacks bite, while the songs eclipse all in rarely revived Sondheim The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2023
The Homecoming review – Pinter’s timeless study of toxic masculinity Playing a man meeting his daughter-in-law for the first time, Jared Harris brings out the dark comedy in Pinter’s snapshot of misogyny The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2023
The Homecoming at the Young Vic review: an impeccable production of an important, deeply unpleasant play There is a direct line to draw from the world of this play to the online toxic masculinity of today Evening Standard · Dec 6, 2023
King Crimson and Can were among their go-to inspirations – but in the new romantic era, Talk Talk couldn’t admit it Steve Hogarth, Tim Bowness, Richard Barbieri and others speak up for the band’s prog credentials Louder · Nov 27, 2023
How U.S. war crimes led us here Israeli forces are emulating what the U.S. did in Mosul, Fallujah and elsewhere. But it's harder to hide Salon · Nov 18, 2023
Joan Bakewell on love, fun and ambition at 90: ‘I’ve been pleased not to be married these last 20 years’ Still nowhere near ready to retire, the arts presenter talks about her six decades in TV, her affair with Harold Pinter and why David Attenborough was a terrific boss The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2023 Sir Michael Gambon obituary Versatile actor with a magnificent presence who starred in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films
The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2023 Michael Gambon, star of Harry Potter and The Singing Detective, dies aged 82 The Olivier award-winning actor, whose major film roles included Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, has died
Evening Standard · Aug 8, 2023 William Friedkin’s best films to watch after The Exorcist He was known for his 1973 genre-changing horror, but many of the director’s shocking and electrifying films also reached deep into the American psyche
The Guardian - UK · Aug 1, 2023 Michael Bakewell obituary Radio and television producer who was head of plays at the BBC and steered productions of work by Harold Pinter, Alan Plater, Ibsen, Strindberg and Athol Fugard
Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 25, 2023 ‘No Man’s Land’ as mystifying as ever in Steppenwolf staging This is an abstract work, absurdist if you care to call it that, grounded in the realities of aging but equally informed by the instability of memories and dreams.
The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2023 Patrick Marber to direct Nachtland, a play about Hitler’s art and ‘rise of the new right’ Satire by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg will open next year at the Young Vic in London which will also revive Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming
The Guardian - UK · Jul 16, 2023 The week in theatre: Dr Semmelweis; Beneatha’s Place; A Strange Loop; Song from Far Away – review Harold Pinter theatre; Young Vic; Barbican; Hampstead theatre, LondonMark Rylance mesmerises as the tormented Hungarian doctor; Kwame Kwei-Armah’s new satire is all too timely
The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2023 Q&A: Steven Soderbergh goes 'Full Circle', talks DVDs, Danny Ocean and 'Out of Sight' Steven Soderbergh's latest project is the series “Full Circle” for Max debuting Thursday
The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2023 The week in theatre: As You Like It; Tambo & Bones; Stumped – review Seasoned actors turn Shakespeare’s romcom on its head in an enchanted RSC production; US race relations meet Waiting for Godot; and at the crease with Beckett and Pinter
The Independent UK · Jun 28, 2023 Michael Rosen ‘honoured’ by prize in memory of fellow injustice fighter Pinter Past winners of the award have included Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sir Salman Rushdie.
The Guardian - UK · Jun 28, 2023 Author Michael Rosen wins 2023 PEN Pinter prize for ‘fearless’ body of work Writer of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt is a ‘passionate linguist, gifted humanist, national treasure and ambassador of gibberish’