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‘People say I’m pouring Coca-Cola into fine malt whisky’: why is the National Theatre shaking up Sophocles?

In a bold new production starring Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss, the NT is fusing Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman. So what can two stories written 23 centuries apart tell us about how we live today?

The Guardian - UK

The Windmill, the U.S. Open and Two Trailblazing Women Who Shaped Shinnecock

Nettie and Beatrix Hoyt were trailblazing women in golf, who left an indelible mark on site of the 2026 U.S. Open, Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.

Sports Illustrated

The Glass Menagerie review – Tennessee Williams’ delicate classic is stomped on for laughs

Melbourne Theatre Company, Southbank TheatreWhile Alison Whyte is never less than compelling, director Mark Wilson encourages a buffoonery from the cast that is fatal to this play’s melancholic drift

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Boom! A melodrama fit for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s doomed love affair

A dying glamour puss falls for her parasitic houseguest in Joseph Losey’s 1968 fever dream that earns its exclamation mark

The Guardian - AU

‘It’s a fun cocktail!’: the Wooster Group’s head-spinning blend of high and low art

In wonderfully bewildering shows, New York’s venerable avant garde theatre company mash together everything from baroque opera to sci-fi B-movies. Their next trick? A seance-style tribute to an old friend

The Guardian - UK

Maga’s guilt, frank nonsense and mirth

The Guardian - UK

Unseen Tennessee Williams radio play published in literary magazine

The Strangers, a horror tale written during the playwright’s college days, appeared in the Strand magazine this week

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Haunted house and invisible demons: Tennessee Williams' early radio play 'The Strangers' publishes

Tennessee Williams' early radio play, “The Strangers,” is featured in The Strand this week

The Independent UK

The Glass Menagerie review – cool gloom makes Tennessee Williams’s sadness hit harder

Andrew Panton’s restrained production of the memory play gains in quiet domestic realism what it loses in unhinged vitriol

The Guardian - UK

Pierce Brosnan regrets quitting theatre after landing James Bond role

Hollywood actor Pierce Brosnan has confessed he regrets turning his back on the theatre after landing his career-defining role as James Bond and applauds his successor Daniel Craig for treading the boards again after playing 007.

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‘Pink Floyd were my landscape. I was a hippy’: Pierce Brosnan revisits his old London haunts

The former 007 and current star of The Thursday Murder Club goes for a stroll in London’s Camden Town and Primrose Hill. Can he get past the security guard at the Roundhouse, where he once walked a tipsy Tennessee Williams to his car?

The Guardian - UK

Richard Thomas dons wig and mustache to play icon Mark Twain in one-man play touring the US

Richard Thomas has taken on the role of Mark Twain in a one-man show originally performed by Hal Holbrook

The Independent UK

Mother Play review – Sigrid Thornton is terrific as a gin-soaked, monstrous matriarch

Melbourne Theatre CompanyThornton, Yael Stone and Ash Flanders give beautiful performances as a miserable family, but startling tonal shifts send this American play into silliness

The Guardian - AU

Ruth Wilson and Michael Shannon are mesmerising in A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Almeida Theatre

4/5 Rebecca Frecknall stages a surprisingly funny revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Prohibition-era romantic tragedy

Evening Standard

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Tom Cruise Is a Violet? Tramell Tillman's Metaphor Explains Everything About Mission Impossible's Humanity and Boxoffice Sucess

After working in Mission: Impossible Final Reckoning, the stage trained actor is ready for the next era in his career. Tramell Tillman loves flowers, travelling and working with Tom Cruise.

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Pamela Anderson to return to stage in Tennessee Williams' Camino Real

Pamela Anderson is set to return to the stage in a revival of Tennessee Williams' 'Camino Real' after appearing in Broadway's 'Chicago' in 2022.

The Independent UK

Pamela Anderson announces return to the stage in Tennessee Williams play

The Baywatch star made her Broadway debut three years ago in ‘Chicago’

The Conversation

The Glass Menagerie: the haunting beauty of Tennessee Wiliams’ play endures in this Sydney revival

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is widely regarded as one of America’s greatest playwrights. A prolific and unabashedly autobiographical writer, Williams’ career spanned four decades of the 20th century.

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The Guardian - UK

The Glass Menagerie review – exquisite, utterly devastating take on Tennessee Williams’ classic

Jay Miller’s production raises the ghosts of troubled memories with powerful intimacy in this final show before the venue gets a grand refit

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Little Foxes; The Invention of Love – review

Daisy Edgar-Jones is on the prowl; Anne-Marie Duff channels Bette Davis; and Simon Russell Beale gleams in the literary afterlife

The Guardian - AU

Australia on stage: the best theatre, musicals, dance and opera of 2024

Guardian Australia critics pick out the best live stage experiences of the year

Evening Standard

Cat On a Hot Tin Roof at the Almeida review: Daisy Edgar-Jones is a force of nature in this striking revival

4/5 Director Rebecca Frecknall’s vivid interpretation makes a hazily-remembered classic feel new and strange

The Guardian - UK

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof review – Daisy Edgar-Jones is full of angry energy in a stylish family face-off

Rebecca Frecknall’s stark production brings out the rage in Williams’ play through powerful performances, but fails to plumb all its emotional depths

Evening Standard

Christmas culture guide 2024: the very best of what to see on stage and screen this festive season in London

The very best of what to do in film, TV, theatre, panto, dance and more...

The Guardian - UK

Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino review – from fish out of water to Hollywood star

The method actor traces his path to success, spending as much time on the films that flopped as the greatest hits

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