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How Vivien Leigh survived Hollywood before #MeToo

Vivien Leigh’s achievements in cinema were extraordinary. Known for her glamour and beauty, the actress rose from a bit-part player to become one of the most famous women in Hollywood, playing Scarlet O’Hara in Gone with the Wind in 1939. And November 5 marks the 110th anniversary of the birth…

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‘My privacy is gone’: Brian Cox on Succession’s toll, spurning Game of Thrones – and his new role as Bach

As he returns to the stage to play Bach in crisis, the actor sounds off about the mess Britain’s in, explains why he turned down Game of Thrones – and reveals the price he has paid for Succession

The Guardian - UK

As it turns 60, the National Theatre must balance past and present

The NT has a civic duty to revive woefully neglected plays from the world repertory. Doing so will make modern drama stronger

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A Voyage Round My Father review – Rupert Everett brings soft focus to John Mortimer’s play

Richard Eyre’s production of the father-and-son drama has some strong performances but is too light to really probe the play’s plaintive depths

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Sir Michael Gambon obituary

Versatile actor with a magnificent presence who starred in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gambon, who played Dumbledore in 'Harry Potter,' dies at 82

Gambon was best known for playing Albus Dumbledore in most of the Harry Potter movies. The Irish-born actor got his start on stage and worked under Laurence Olivier.

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Michael Gambon: an actor who let his heart and soul crack open

A star with incredible presence, Gambon brought heft and delicacy, mischief and feeling, to the stage and screen

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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

The Guardian - UK

‘A lot of biopics depend on likeness – this is braver’: Gabriel Byrne on playing Samuel Beckett

The actor talks about his new movie Dance First, in which he plays the Irish dramatist, the time he shared a drink with Richard Burton and why he had to leave Los Angeles

The Guardian - UK

A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh's 20th film – what do we make of his prodigious output?

In an essay on Kenneth Branagh, screenwriter Scott Frank recalls meeting the future star and director of his screenplay Dead Again (1991) and wondering “why the guy would want to direct a loopy, film noir thriller like mine?”

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Leonard Tucker obituary

Pioneering lighting designer with Laurence Olivier and Peter Hall at the National Theatre, and later in the West End

The Guardian - UK

Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles? review – moving account of a Black female playwright in 60s London

Rakie Ayola excels as Adrienne Kennedy, whose John Lennon play was taken up by Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre while she was sidelined, in this crystal-clear production of her autobiographical tale

The Guardian - UK

Fielding becomes self-flagellation for Stokes and co as England toil away

A long, bruising day trying to take wickets seemed to take its toll on the hosts, before Australia showed them how it’s done in the second Test at Lord’s

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‘I was living in a fool’s paradise’: Adrienne Kennedy on meeting the Beatles and losing control of her play

The great American playwright, who made her Broadway debut last year aged 91, recounts what happened when she adapted a John Lennon book for Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre

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Jeremy Paxman: memorable lines from a master of the scathing put-down

As the University Challenge host bows out, here is a selection of his most disparaging comments to contestants

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TV tonight: Nick Broomfield delves into the life of the unknown Rolling Stone

Founder and guitarist Brian Jones was the ‘heart and soul’ of the band. Plus: is everything about to go up in flames on Succession? Here’s what to watch this evening

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You Need to Watch the Best Retro Sci-fi Movie on HBO Max ASAP

Forget steampunk. It's time for dieselpunk.

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Can monarchical drama really hold a modern audience’s attention?

Britain needs magic and ritual, but for many, the coronation was an empty conjuring trick

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Richard Dreyfuss says new Oscar diversity rules ‘make me vomit’

‘Jaws’ star also defended Laurence Olivier’s use of blackface

The Guardian - UK

Return of the king: what can the movies teach us about the coronation?

Icy rejection in Welles’s Chimes at Midnight, Chalamet stripped to the waist, a swaggering Chris Hemsworth – which will Charles channel on Saturday?

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Jack Thorne on his new play about Richard Burton and John Gielgud’s Hamlet: “Rehearsals can be brutal”

Sam Mendes was inspired to commission The Motive and the Cue after finding a book on the tumultous 1964 staging of Hamlet on Broadway - now it’s at the National Theatre

The Guardian - UK

All the world’s a stage – or should be

The people of Britain deserve nothing less than that every town should have its own repertory theatre

The Guardian - UK

Sir Derek Jacobi: ‘The sound and magic of voice are disappearing from theatre’

The acclaimed actor – who is to receive a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Olivier Awards – says the demise of repertory theatre is putting paid to the vocal prowess

The Guardian - UK

Philip Ziegler obituary

Diplomat and historian who wrote magisterial biographies of Harold Wilson, Lord Mountbatten and Edward Heath

The Guardian - UK

A new start after 60: acting was my teenage dream – now I’m at the National Theatre

Duncan Hess grew up wanting to be an actor, instead becoming a successful director at the BBC. Now he has returned to his first love, and is already walking in the footsteps of the greats

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