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INSANE: Harold pinter - The Real Truth

Actor known for playing Monica Sutton in Coronation Street, her many stage roles, and film and TV appearances with her father, Donald Pleasence

The Guardian - UK

‘I love being around other peasants like me!’ … Dani and Danny Dyer’s battle to save British seaside holidays

Mopping floors, dressing up as kids’ entertainers and fishing unmentionable things from swimming pools: the Dyers’ new TV show sees them investing in a caravan park. Can they revive the UK’s love of them?

The Guardian - UK

Kristin Scott Thomas says male theatre critics fail to grasp plays about women

Actor’s comments came as she accepted a lifetime achievement award for women in the arts

The Guardian - UK

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Orphans: Gritty absurdist play about two damaged brothers has mystery and threat

4/5 This revival of Lyle Kessler’s Philadelphia set play at Jermyn Street Theatre energetically tells the story of two orphan brothers having their strange world punctured by an outsider

Evening Standard

‘A producer grabbed me, and I thought, Oh, for God’s sake’: Patricia Hodge on sexual harassment, drugs – and being in her prime at 79

Until she reached her 50s, the actor was a constant presence on stage and screen. Then the offers disappeared. Now, as her renaissance continues, she is taking on Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals

The Guardian - UK

Pink-ball wizard: batters on facing ‘devastating weapon’ Mitchell Starc

Dawid Malan ‘smiles at the memory’ of taking on Australia’s relentless fast bowler under the lights

The Guardian - UK

Surreal, erudite and always experimenting: Tom Stoppard was a playwright never likely to stand still

TRIBUTE: David Lister remembers the brilliant, complicated man whose work explored politics, science, love, Shakespeare, and even rock’n’roll

The Independent UK

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Sir Tom Stoppard obituary

One of Britain’s most outstanding playwrights famed for the ‘hypnotised brilliance’ of his prose and dialogue

The Guardian - UK

Sir Tom Stoppard obituary: He both entertained and fought oppression with his pen

Sir Tom Stoppard had a remarkable rise to the top of the cultural world and leaves behind an astonishing legacy of work

Evening Standard

Tom Stoppard: a brilliant dramatist who always raised the temperature of the room

The self-described ‘bounced Czech’ created cerebral works centred by a core of genuine emotion – and always understood the ways of our world

The Guardian - UK

The Standard Theatre Awards Shortlist 2025 revealed

Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston and Rachel Zegler are shortlisted as the Standard’s historic celebration of the stage returns

Evening Standard

High Noon heads for the West End as Billy Crudup takes on Gary Cooper role

The Tony award-winning actor will play the marshal in a London stage adaptation of the 1952 western that won Cooper an Oscar

The Guardian - UK

Gawn Grainger obituary

Actor, playwright and screenwriter who was a stalwart of the National Theatre under Laurence Olivier

The Guardian - UK

Danny Dyer plunged into a 'spiral of madness' after Harold Pinter's death

Actor Danny Dyer plunged into a "spiral of madness" following the death of his mentor Harold Pinter in 2008 - admitting he felt like a "lost soul" and was "angry at the world".

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Danny Dyer says Harold Pinter’s death sent him into ‘spiral of madness’

Actor tells BBC about his relationship with the playwright, his ‘mentor’, and how he went ‘off the rails’

Evening Standard

Danny Dyer says death of mentor Harold Pinter sent him into ‘spiral of madness’

Dyer said he would stay at the playwright’s house and learn about famous writers and poets like WH Auden and CS Lewis.

The Guardian - UK

Abuse, witch-hunts and hangings: why Arthur Miller’s masterpiece The Crucible still haunts us

What’s behind all the revivals of the shocking parable about terrifying McCarthyism in 1950s America? Our writer reflects on how, through the decades, each fresh production finds new meanings that address our times

The Independent UK

Danny Dyer emotionally reveals why wife controls their finances in ‘most honest interview’ he’s ‘ever done’

‘She controls everything now,’ actor said

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Danny Dyer developing play about his friendship with Harold Pinter

Actor Danny Dyer is developing a new play called 'When Harry Met Danny' about his friendship with legendary playwright Harold Pinter who describes as his "mentor".

The Independent UK

Danny Dyer plans stage tribute to mentor Harold Pinter

‘When Harry Met Danny’ is still in its early planning stages

The Independent UK

John Lithgow and Lesley Manville take home acting gongs at starry Olivier Awards

Imelda Staunton and Romola Garai were among the winners of the night

The Guardian - UK

Olivier awards 2025: full list of winners

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Giant and Fiddler on the Roof were among the big winners at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony

The Guardian - UK

Geoffrey Rush on Pirates, Pinter and pugs: ‘Just be happy we evolved on this bit of rock’

The Oscar winner answers your questions about playing everyone from Peter Sellers to the Marquis de Sade, his home town of Toowoomba and new care-home horror The Rule of Jenny Pen

The Guardian - UK

‘Cocaine is classless ... everyone’s at it’: Danny Dyer on fame, aliens, love and male violence

He went from Harold Pinter’s protege to barely scraping a living to roaring success in Jilly Cooper’s Rivals. With the release of his new film Marching Powder, he talks about his journey from national joke to national treasure

The Independent UK

Jared Harris: ‘I didn’t like what my family had in mind for me’

INTERVIEW: The ‘Mad Men’ actor speaks to Louis Chilton about his new production of ‘Hamlet’ at the RSC, reinventing himself in the US, and the ‘extreme’ response to his theatrical comeback

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