Homes for sale near theatres – in pictures
[ad_1] From a glamorous central London pad to a historic Georgian townhouse Continue reading… [ad_2] This content first appear on the guardian
Whiskers, claws and applause: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats – in pictures | Stage
[ad_1] Elaine Paige as Grizabella, backstage at the New London theatre, Drury Lane, after the first preview of Cats. Paige took over from Judi Dench with a few days’ notice. Photograph: PA [ad_2] This content first appear on the guardian
The Bard in black and white: Shakespeare by Tristram Kenton – in pictures | Stage
[ad_1] A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1989 Clare Higgins as Titania and David Troughton as Bottom, directed by John Caird, designed by Sue Blane, at the Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. All photographs: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian Facebook Twitter [ad_2] This content first appear on the guardian
From Gnomeo & Juliet to Baz Luhrmann: 10 of the best Romeo and Juliets | Culture
[ad_1] William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)Amazon Prime Video Sun’s out, guns out: Baz Luhrmann captures the temper-fraying, passion-sparking heat of Shakespeare’s summertime tragedy. We’re in Verona (or is that Venice?) Beach, where the boardwalk throbs and shirts are either loud or absent. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes are love’s young dreamers, and – in […]
‘You can smell the sweat and hair gel’: the best nightclub scenes from culture | Music
[ad_1] Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo There have been many notable nightclubs in film history. The Blue Angel in the Marlene Dietrich movie; the Copacabana in Goodfellas, accessible to privileged wiseguys via the kitchen; the Slow Club in Blue Velvet, with the emotionally damaged star turn Isabella Rossellini singing the song of the same name. But […]
Cicely Tyson, award-winning star of stage and screen, dies at 96 | Culture
[ad_1] Cicely Tyson, the pioneering black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role in Sounder, won a Tony award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, died Thursday at age 96. Tyson’s death was announced by her family, via her manager Larry Thompson, […]
An impossible dream? The trouble with utopian dramas | Stage
[ad_1] When the UK entered its first lockdown in March, there was a lot of talk about using this enforced pause as a chance to reassess and maybe even remake the world. As the months took their toll, that energy waned. But with a vaccine rollout and a man for whom empathy is not an […]
York Theatre Royal’s travelling panto – in pictures | Life and style
[ad_1] Tom Bird, the executive director, says: ‘2020 has threatened to remove theatres permanently from our towns and cities; it has threatened the livelihoods of thousands of artist and arts workers across the country. For much of the year, Covid 19 has insisted that we stop getting together in big rooms to laugh, cry and […]
Oh, yes she is: panto dames through the decades – in pictures
[ad_1] It can be a role as career-defining as Hamlet. Dan Leno, who starred at Drury Lane every Christmas from 1888 to 1904, was the first great pantomime dame: a tiny ex-clog dancer with a top-knot. George Robey took up the, um, baton – “Many’s the squeeze she’s had of my blue bag on washing […]
They're behind you! Rip-roaring pantos from the past – in pictures
[ad_1] From Ian McKellen’s pastel Widow Twankey to Dame Edna in Dick Whittington, the Guardian’s stage photographer has captured some of the boldest and brightest pantos The snow must go on: festive shows to watch online Continue reading… [ad_2] This content first appear on the guardian
