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Manhunt review – strangely plodding examination of life and death of Raoul Moat

Posthumous courtroom drama from writer-director Robert Icke seems unsure of – or opaque in – its intentions

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2025

Red or Dead review – Peter Mullan never walks alone as Liverpool FC hero Bill Shankly

A cast of more than 50 delivers an inspiring adaptation of David Peace’s epic novel about a manager who prized socialism

The Guardian - UK · Mar 27, 2025

Ambika Mod to play porn addict in ‘funny, unsettling and honest’ play at the Royal Court

The One Day actor will star in Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s Porn Play, one of four new premieres announced by the London theatre

The Guardian - UK · Mar 25, 2025

Curtain up! Meet the new artistic directors with great plans for British theatre

Our ​theatre critic welcomes inspiring developments at stages across the UK,​ from the Young Vic to the Liverpool Everyman while, below, some of the top new recruits talk about working post-pandemic in an era of funding cuts – and share the secrets of their trade

The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2025

Fury and denunciations: when pop idol Marianne Faithfull took to the stage – and silenced her critics

Faithfull’s casting in Chekhov’s Three Sisters in 1967 caused a perfect storm, yet she held her own against the vastly more experienced cast including Glenda Jackson. It was the start of many such triumphs

The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2025

‘We were booed. I felt proud’: Daniel Evans on his rollercoaster journey to RSC supremo

The joint RSC boss is on unstoppable form, making a blistering return to the stage with a 4:48 Psychosis performed in the small hours – and an Edward II that will be a ‘screw you’ to his school bullies

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27, 2025

Joan Plowright – a leading actress in British theatre’s post-war class revolution

Dame Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95, was an actress of enormous and wide-ranging talent across a 60-year stage and screen career. Plowright was “perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century”, in Variety’s words. She was certainly a leading pioneer in post-war British theatre’s modernisation – particularly…

The Conversation · Jan 21, 2025

A Good House review – superb social satire about race, property and gentrification

A grubby shack that appears in a prosperous neighbourhood is the catalyst for a culture clash in South African playwright Amy Jephta’s sharp drama

The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2025

‘Impish, tremendously warm, never grand’: Sheila Reid pays tribute to Joan Plowright

Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95, is remembered by her friend and fellow member of the budding National Theatre company in the 1960s

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2025

Dame Joan Plowright obituary

Stage and screen star who was part of a radical generation of actors responsible for establishing the National Theatre

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2025