Frank Barrie obituary Witty and elegant actor whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to Dot Cotton’s gentleman friend in EastEnders The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2025
Alan Strachan obituary Director in the West End and regional theatre for five decades who often worked with the playwright Alan Ayckbourn The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2025
Roland Curram obituary Actor best known for playing the gay companion to Julie Christie’s good-time girl in Darling The Guardian - UK · Jun 11, 2025
Lest we forget the Indian soldiers who fought for Britain Brief letters: Lessons on war history | Noël Coward’s multitasking | Morris dancing at rugby | Nether regions | Top Tory failures The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2024
Mitzi Gaynor death: South Pacific star dies aged 93 The Chicago-born actor also appeared in ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’ and ‘The Birds and the Bees’ The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2024
New York theatre director blames stroke for ‘hurtful’ diversity comments James Morgan’s colleague claimed the theatre veteran ‘yelled’ at him The Independent UK · Oct 15, 2024
Norman Spencer obituary Production manager and producer who worked with David Lean on The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia The Guardian - UK · Sep 18, 2024
Il Segreto di Susanna/Pagliacci review – a double whammy of sexual jealousy Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s barbed 1909 comedy Il Segreto di Susanna feels like a Noël Coward play set to music, while Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci is a powerful story of a woman’s murder by an abusive partner The Guardian - UK · Jul 18, 2024
Suite in Three Keys review – Noël Coward hotel trilogy stares stylishly into the abyss Tara Fitzgerald, Emma Fielding and Stephen Boxer deftly juggle roles in this marathon of marital malaise The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2024
Tom Allen looks back: ‘One of my coping mechanisms was to create a fantasy life, pretending to be an Edwardian aristocrat’ The comedian and presenter on hating himself in his teens, coming out, and finally finding his way The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2024
In brief: Four Shots in the Night; The Kellerby Code; Masquerade – review The gripping real-life story of the murder of a spy; a funny and chilling debut in hock to the Ripley books; and the definitive biography of Noël Coward The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2024
Olivier awards 2024: complete list of nominations Sunset Boulevard and Dear England have the most nominations at this year’s awards – see who else is in the running The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2024
Mercedes de Acosta: The poet who had affairs with the 20th century’s most famous women An unpublished book has emerged by the woman best known for her liaisons with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Isadora Duncan The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2024
‘They were the original gangsters!’: how Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen wages war on the aristocracy King of blokey capers Guy Ritchie is back with a wild tale of a secret weed farm in a stately home – and the duke who gets drawn into a crime gang. Its stars talk about taking on the aristos, training foxes – and why women are bossing things at… The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2023 Keith Baxter obituary Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on Broadway
The Guardian - UK · Jun 4, 2023 Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward story review – fascinating portrait of a 20th-century great Barnaby Thompson’s well-researched documentary highlights the contradictions of the sparkling playwright’s life
The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2023 From Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to Anselm Kiefer: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment Whether it’s Marvel’s multiverse or the German artist’s Joycean dreamworld, our critics have you covered for the next seven days
The Guardian - UK · May 30, 2023 Mad About the Boy - The Noël Coward Story review – brisk trot through life and career Speeding through Coward’s journey from humble origins to all-round megastardom, we don’t get to engage with his complex private life
The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2023 The week in theatre: Operation Mincemeat; 4000 Miles; The Circle – review SplitLip honour as well as spoof with their all-conquering espionage musical. Plus, Eileen Atkins at her most subtle, and a new twist on Somerset Maugham
The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2023 The week in theatre: August in England; Blue Now; The Vortex – review Lenny Henry draws his audience deep into the life – and its shattering – of a Windrush evictee; Derek Jarman’s final film is reverentially revisited; and Lia Williams and son ignite Noël Coward at his darkest
The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2023 The Vortex review – Noël Coward’s swirling jazz age psychodrama Lia Williams and her son Joshua James make a scintillating double act in a resonant revival of the 1924 hit
The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2023 Somerset Maugham: a wily playwright of light dramas and weighty morals A new revival of The Circle is a reminder of a dramatist who smuggled vital messages into broad crowdpleasers
The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2023 Private Lives review – Coward’s comedy becomes a stark theatre of cruelty Stephen Mangan and Rachael Stirling bare their teeth in a show that dials up the violence and sometimes struggles to navigate the humour
The Independent UK · Mar 27, 2023 ‘I’m an enormously talented man’: The life of born show-off Noel Coward As a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin Chilton looks back on the life of the trailblazing playwright with ‘a talent to amuse’
The Independent UK · Mar 26, 2023 ‘I’m an enormously talented man’: The life of born show-off Noel Coward, 50 years on As a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin Chilton looks back on the life of the trailblazing playwright with ‘a talent to amuse’